| Titre | Comparison of geomagnetic storms of March 17, 2013 and 2015: GPS phase scintillation and auroral electrojet currents |
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| Auteur | Prikryl, P; Ghoddousi-Fard, R; Viljanen, A; Weygand, J M; Kunduri, B S R; Thomas, E G; Ruohoniemi, J M; Connors, M; Danskin, D W ; Jayachandran, P T; Jacobsen, K S; Andalsvik, Y L; Durgonics, T; Oksavik, K; Zhang, Y; Spanswick, E; Sreeja, V; Aquino, M |
| Source | Geophysical Research Abstracts vol. 19, 2017, 1p. |
| Liens | Online - En ligne
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| Année | 2017 |
| Séries alt. | Ressources naturelles Canada, Contribution externe 20170058 |
| Éditeur | European Geosciences Union |
| Document | publication en série |
| Lang. | anglais |
| Media | papier; en ligne; numérique |
| Formats | pdf |
| Sujets | orages magnétiques; variations géomagnétiques; géomagnétisme; champs géomagnétiques; cycles solaires; variations solaires; magnétomètres; magnétosphère; ionosphère; zone aurorale; géologie extraterrestre;
géophysique |
| Diffusé | 2017 01 01 |
| Résumé | (disponible en anglais seulement)
Interplanetary coronal mass ejections compounded by high-speed plasma streams from coronal holes caused two intense geomagnetic storms on March 17-18, 2013 and
2015 during the current solar cycle. Using arrays of groundbased instruments including GPS receivers, HF radars, ionosondes, riometers, all-sky imagers and magnetometers, GPS phase scintillation is studied in the context of solar wind coupling to the
magnetosphere-ionosphere system comparing the two storms. The phase scintillation index is computed for signals sampled at a rate of 50 Hz by specialized GPS scintillation receivers. It is supplemented by the phase scintillation proxy index obtained
from geodetic-quality GPS data sampled at 1 Hz.We examine the relation between the scintillation and auroral electrojet currents observed by arrays of ground-based magnetometers as well as energetic particle precipitation observed by the DMSP
satellites. Equivalent ionospheric currents are obtained from ground magnetometer data using the spherical elementary currents systems technique that has been applied over the ground magnetometer networks in North America and northern Europe. For
both storms, preliminary results indicate that the GPS phase scintillation is mapped to strong westward electrojet and to the poleward edge of the eastward electrojet. It is mostly absent or low in the auroral zone when the electrojets are
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| GEOSCAN ID | 300843 |
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