Geomagnetic Storm Effect on F2-Region Ionosphere during 2012 at Low- and Mid-Latitude-Latitude Stations in the Southern Hemisphere

Verification of Low Latitude Ionosphere Effects on WAAS During October 2003 Geomagnetic Storm

The Federal Aviation Administration’s Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) provides high integrity GPS-based precision navigation service to users in the conterminous United States. In October 2003, only four months after WAAS was commissioned, a series of coronal mass ejections from the sun triggered one of the strongest geomagnetic and ionospheric storms of the solar cycle. WAAS user integrit...

Mid-latitude Vertical Transmission of Geomagnetic Micropulsations through the Ionosphere

Type-1 echoes from the mid-latitude E-Region ionosphere

This paper presents more data on the properties of type-1 irregularities in the nighttime midlatitude E-region ionosphere. The measurements were made with a 50-MHz Doppler radar system operating in Crete, Greece. The type-1 echoes last from several seconds to a few minutes and are characterized by narrow Doppler spectra with peaks corresponding to wave phase velocities of 250–350 m/s. The avera...

The 1985 southern hemisphere mid-latitude total column ozone anomaly

One of the most significant events in the evolution of the ozone layer over southern mid-latitudes since the late 1970s was the large decrease observed in 1985. This event remains unexplained and a detailed investigation of the mechanisms responsible for the event has not previously been undertaken. In this study, the 1985 Southern Hemisphere mid-latitude total column ozone anomaly is analyzed ...

Disturbances of the Low Latitude Ionosphere During Extremes of Geomagnetic Activity

Various observational tools are available for the study of F-layer irregularities in the equatorial region. These include optical observations of the depletion of electron density, GPS phase fluctuations, DMSP in situ observations of ion depletions, radar observations of coherent scatter from equatorial irregularities, and ionospheric soundings. Each makes contributions to observational studies...