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Generation of ionospheric irregularities upon propagation of solitary internal gravity wave during the major magnetic storm of October 29–31, 2003

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Using the technique of global detection of ionospheric disturbances, based on processing the data of the global GPS-receiver network, we obtain experimental proof of the existence of a solitary wave (soliton) in the atmosphere during the main phase of the major magnetic storm of October 30, 2003. The soliton with a characteristic duration of about 40 min and a relative amplitude of up to 40%, originated at the moment of the maximum disturbance of the Earth’s magnetic field, traveled without changing its shape at a distance of up to 4500 km with a velocity of 1400 m/s, which exceeded the atmospheric sound velocity at the heights of the main electron-density maximum in the ionosphere (about 300 km) by a factor of 1.5. The intensity of variations in the total electron content in the period range 1–10 min increases by an order of magnitude as the soliton propagates from the North-East to the South-West of the USA in the regions with the maximum amplitude of the large-scale disturbance. This corresponds to enhancement of ionospheric irregularities with scales from 10 to 100 km, and also of small-scale irregularities (SSI) with scales of 100 to 1000 m, since the spectrum of the ionospheric irregularities has a power-law shape. Spatio-temporal characteristics of the density distribution of phase slips of GPS signals are close to the corresponding characteristics of the SSI intensity. This agrees with the existing concept that the phase slips result from scattering of GPS radio signals by SSIs. Both the SSI amplitude and the density of phase slips decrease as the soliton decays in amplitude.

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    É. L. Afraimovich, É. I. Astafieva & S. V. Voeykov

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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 49, No. 2, pp. 89–104, February 2006.

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Afraimovich, É.L., Astafieva, É.I. & Voeykov, S.V. Generation of ionospheric irregularities upon propagation of solitary internal gravity wave during the major magnetic storm of October 29–31, 2003. Radiophys Quantum Electron 49, 79–92 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11141-006-0040-2

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