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Dynamical Characteristics of Traveling Wave Packets of Total Electron Content Disturbances

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Using the COPHASE method and the GPS interferometry method for travelling ionospheric disturbances, we analyze in detail the spatio-temporal properties of travelling wave packets (TWP) of total electron content (TEC) disturbances. The analysis is performed on the example of a clearest TWP manifestation observed in California, USA, in October 18, 2001, using the GLOBDET technique, developed at the Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics of the Siberian Branch of RAS for global detection and monitoring of natural and technogenic ionospheric disturbances on the basis of TEC variations retrieved from the global network of GPS receivers. In the time domain, TWPs are quasi-periodic TEC oscillations of duration about 1 h, period of 10–20 min, and amplitude exceeding that of the background TEC fluctuations by at least one order of magnitude. The velocity and direction of TWP motion are similar to those of mid-latitude mesoscale travelling ionospheric disturbances, as obtained earlier from the analysis of phase parameters of HF radio signals and the signals of geostationary satellites and discrete space radio sources.

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  1. Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Irkutsk, Russia

    É. L. Afraimovich, S. V. Voyeikov & N. P. Perevalova

  2. Ministry of Education and Science of Kazakhstan Republic, Institute of the Ionosphere, Almaty, Kazakhstan

    V. V. Vodyannikov & A. F. Yakovets

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Afraimovich, É.L., Vodyannikov, V.V., Voyeikov, S.V. et al. Dynamical Characteristics of Traveling Wave Packets of Total Electron Content Disturbances. Radiophysics and Quantum Electronics 45, 741–757 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022402116082

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