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Response of the Ionosphere to Strong Tropospheric Disturbances

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The response of the lower and upper ionosphere to the propagation of several strong typhoons in 2014–2016 has been studied using regional very-long-wave radio stations and measurements of electron density disturbances based on the satellite data of the SWARM mission in the Far East region of Russia. It is found that disturbances in the amplitude and phase of the very low frequency (VLF) signal, as well as the electron density during the active stage of typhoons, corresponds to the propagation of atmospheric internal gravity waves and their dissipation. A mechanism for the influence of internal waves on the ionosphere is proposed that makes it possible to interpret the observed variations in the phase of the VLF signal and variations in the electron density in the upper ionosphere.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The data used for VHF radio scanning were collected at the Unique Scientific Installation Seismo-Infrasound Complex for Monitoring the Arctic Permafrost Zone and a Complex for Continuous Seismic Monitoring of the Russian Federation, Adjacent Territories and the World” (https://ckp-rf.ru/usu/507436/; http://www.gsras.ru/unu/)). Data in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky were collected by the Kamchatka branch of the Federal Research Center Unified Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences with support from the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia as part of State Task no. 075-00576-21 (http://www.gsras.ru/new/infres/).

Funding

This study was supported by a grant from the Russian Science Foundation, project no. 22-27-00182. The SWARM data analysis software used in this work was developed within the State Task of Moscow State University (topic 01200408544).

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  1. Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    S. L. Shalimov, V. I. Zakharov, M. S. Solov’eva & N. R. Bulatova

  2. Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    S. L. Shalimov

  3. Faculty of Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

    V. I. Zakharov & P. K. Sigachev

  4. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    V. I. Zakharov

  5. Kamchatka Branch, Unified Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences Federal Research Center, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia

    N. R. Bulatova & G. M. Korkina

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Shalimov, S.L., Zakharov, V.I., Solov’eva, M.S. et al. Response of the Ionosphere to Strong Tropospheric Disturbances. Izv. Atmos. Ocean. Phys. 59, 1326–1336 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001433823120216

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