Generation of Geomagnetic Disturbances in the Ionosphere by a Tsunami Wave

Geomagnetism and Aeronomy - The mechanism of the generation of the geomagnetic field disturbance accompanying tsunami wave propagation is considered. Electric currents in the marine environment and...     

Magnetic and Electric Fields Produced in the Sea During Geomagnetic Disturbances

— To understand geomagnetic effects on systems with long conductors it is necessary to know the electric field those systems experience. For surface conductors such as power systems and pipelines this can easily be calculated from the magnetic field variations at the surface using the surface impedance of the earth. However, for calculating the electric fields in pipelines and submarine cables at the seafloor it is necessary to take account of the attenuating effect of the conducting seawater. Assuming that the fields are vertically propagating plane waves, we derive the transfer functions between the electric and magnetic fields at the seafloor and the magnetic field variations at the sea surface. These transfer functions are then used, with surface magnetic field data, to determine the power spectra of the seafloor magnetic and electric fields in a shallow sea (depth 100 m) and in the deep ocean (depth 5 km) for different values of the Kp magnetic activity index. For the period range considered (2 min to 3 hrs) the spectral characteristics of the seafloor magnetic and electric fields for a 100 m deep sea are very similar to those of the surface fields. For the deep ocean the seafloor spectra show a faster decrease in spectral density with increasing frequency compared to the surface fields. The results obtained are shown to be consistent with seafloor observations. Assessment of the seafloor electric fields produced by different levels of geomagnetic activity can be useful in the design of the power feed equipment for submarine cables and cathodic protection for undersea pipelines.     

Geomagnetic Field Disturbances Caused by Heliospheric Current Sheet Crossings

The heliospheric current sheet (HCS) is modified by the solar activity. HCS is highly inclined during solar maximum and almost confined with the solar equatorial plane during solar minimum. Close to the HCS solar wind parameters as proton temperature, flow speed, proton density, etc. differ compared to the region far from the HCS. The Earth’s magnetic dipole field crosses HCS several times each month. Considering interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICME) and high speed solar wind streams (HSS) free periods an investigation of the HCS influence on the geomagnetic field disturbances is presented. The results show a drop of the Dst index and a rise of the AE index at the time of the HCS crossings and also that the behavior of these indices does not depend on the magnetic polarity.     

Earthquake-related Electric Field Changes Observed in the Ionosphere and Ground

The changes of the ionospheric electric field before and after four huge earthquakes, which include the Ms 8.7 earthquake of 2004 and the Ms 8.5 earthquake of 2005 in Sumatra of Indonesia, the Ms 8.0 Wenchuan earthquake of 2008 in China, the Ms 8.8 earthquake of 2010 in Chile, and their strong aftershocks are studied in this paper. The significant results revealed that the power spectral density of low-frequency electric field below 20 Hz in the ionosphere, a kind of electromagnetic radiation phenomena, increased abnormally before and after the earthquakes and partially corresponded to the increased power spectral density of the low-frequency geoelectric field in time. This research preliminarily indicates that the low-frequency electromagnetic radiation during the imminent stages before such earthquakes could be detected by the observation of the ionospheric electric field. However, the spatial, temporal, and intensive complexities of the electric field anomalies in the ionosphere before earthquakes have come in sight also.     

汶川地震同震电离层扰动研究

利用中国大陆陆态观测网(CMONOC)的下关、 昆明和庐州GPS台站, 对汶川地震引起的同震电离层扰动(CID)进行研究。 通过对GPS原始观测数据进行处理证实汶川地震存在5个明显的同震电离层扰动(CID)现象。 根据GPS TEC时间序列和走时, 得到在电离层高度CID的水平传播速度为1.1 km/s, 属于震中区地表抬升引起的声波在电离层中传播速度; 同时, 也得到次一级CID传播速度接近0.7 km/s, 认为可能是重力波。 在此基础上, 利用射线追踪模型寻找震中位置发现, 当CID水平传播速度为1000 m/s时, 发震时刻对应的标准偏差能达到最小值19.55 s, 相应的CID起源位置是30.8°N, 103.15°E, 距离实际震中西南方向33.6 km。     

Role of the Outer Ionosphere in the Winter/Summer Asymmetry of Auroral Electron Precipitations

Geomagnetism and Aeronomy - This paper analyzes the role of the outer ionosphere in the occurrence of a large difference in the frequency of accelerated electron fluxes in the auroral region in the...     

Large-Scale Disturbances Features Induced in the Ionosphere by Powerful Decameter Radiation during Moderate Magnetic Storms

Geomagnetism and Aeronomy - The paper presents the results of experimental studies of aperiodic and quasi-periodic disturbances in the ionosphere that were observed under the influence of powerful...     

Estimation of a Tropospheric Electric Field Associated with the African Zone of Thunderstorm Activity that Penetrates the Ionosphere

Geomagnetism and Aeronomy - The penetration of the nighttime ionosphere by electric fields in the African zone of thunderstorm activity is studied based on calculations. These fields are caused by...     

The Response of the Equatorial Ionosphere over Nigeria to a Geomagnetic Storm Event

Geomagnetism and Aeronomy - The total electron content (TEC) data obtained from the ground-based GPS receiver stations of the Nigerian GNSS network of stations (NIGNET) have been used in this study...     

Paleointensity Bursts in the Geomagnetic Field History

Geomagnetism and Aeronomy - Regularities in the distribution of extreme (burst) increases in paleointensities from 3000 Ma to the present have been studied. Paleointensity bursts that exceed...     

国际地磁参考场在我国地磁基础研究中的应用

国际地磁参考场资料在我国得到广泛应用。利用国际地磁参考场资料，我国学者研究了高斯分析、地球磁场模型及其源场可能位置、重磁关系、核幔耦合、地磁场能量、地球非偶极子磁场西向漂移等。在绘制中国地磁等值图中也利用了某些国际地磁参考场资料。     

Possible Mechanism for Damping of Electrostatic Instability Related to Inhomogeneous Distribution of Energy Density in the Auroral Ionosphere

Satellite observations show that the electrostatic instability, which is expected to occur in most cases due to an inhomogeneous energy density caused by a strongly inhomogeneous transverse electric field (shear of plasma convection velocity), occasionally does not develop inside nonlinear plasma structures in the auroral ionosphere, even though the velocity shear is sufficient for its excitation. In this paper, it is shown that the instability damping can be caused by out-of-phase variations of the electric field and field-aligned current acting in these structures. Therefore, the mismatch of sources of free energy required for the wave generation nearly nullifies their common effect.     

Photochemistry of Ions at D-region Altitudes of the Ionosphere: A Review

The current state of knowledge of the D-region ion photochemistry is reviewed. Equations determining production rates of electrons and positive ions by photoionization of atmospheric neutral species are presented and briefly discussed. Considerable attention is given to the progress in the chemistry of O⁺(⁴S), O⁺(²D), O⁺(²P), N⁺, N₂ ⁺, O₂ ⁺, NO⁺, N₄ ⁺, O₄ ⁺, NO⁺(N₂), NO⁺(CO₂), NO⁺(CO₂)₂, NO⁺(H₂O) _n for n = 1–3, NO⁺(H₂O)(N₂), NO⁺(H₂O)₂(N₂), NO⁺(H₂O)(CO₂), NO⁺(H₂O)₂(CO₂), O₂ ⁺(H₂O), H₃O⁺(OH), H⁺(H₂O) _n for n = 1–8, O^?, O₂ ^?, O₃ ^?, O₄ ^?, OH^?, CO₃ ^?, CO₄ ^?, NO₂ ^?, NO₃ ^?, ONOO^?, Cl^?, Cl^?(H₂O), Cl^?(CO₂), HCO₃ ^?, CO₃ ^?(H₂O), CO₃ ^?(H₂O)₂, NO₃ ^?(H₂O), NO₃ ^?(H₂O)₂, OH^?(H₂O), and OH^?(H₂O)₂ ions. The analysis of the D-region rocket ion mass spectrometer measurements shows that, among these ions, O₂ ⁺, NO⁺, NO⁺(H₂O), and H⁺(H₂O) _n for n = 1–7 can make the main contribution to the total positive ion number density, and O^?, O₂ ^?, Cl^?, OH^?(H₂O), CO₃ ^?, HCO₃ ^?, NO₃ ^?, ONOO^?, CO₄ ^?, NO₃ ^?(H₂O), NO₃ ^?(H₂O)₂, and ³⁵Cl^?(CO₂) ions can be responsible for the main contribution to the total negative ion number density. Photodetachment of electrons from O^?, Cl^?, O₂ ^?, O₃ ^?, OH^?, NO₂ ^?, and NO₃ ^?, dissociative electron photodetachment of O₄ ^? and OH^?(H₂O), and photodissociation of O₃ ^?, O₄ ^?, CO₃ ^?, CO₄ ^?, ONOO^?, HCO₃ ^?, CO₃ ^?(H₂O), NO₃ ^?(H₂O), O₂ ⁺(H₂O), O₄ ⁺, N₄ ⁺, NO⁺(H₂O), NO⁺(H₂O)₂, H⁺(H₂O) _n for n = 2–4, NO⁺(N₂), and NO⁺(CO₂) are studied, and the photodetachment and photodissociation rate coefficients are calculated using the current state of knowledge on the cross sections of these processes and fluxes of solar radiation.     

Geomagnetic Disturbances Accompanying the Great Japanese Earthquake of March 11, 2011

Geomagnetism and Aeronomy - This work analyzes the geomagnetic field variations recorded at the Magnetic Observatory of Karazin Kharkiv National University (in the period range of 1–1000 s)...     

Effects of the Lipetsk Meteoroid in the Geomagnetic Field

Geomagnetism and Aeronomy - Observational data from the Kiev (Ukraine), Borok, St. Petersburg, Hel (Poland), Arti, Novosibirsk, Almaty (Kazakhstan), and Irkutsk magnetic observatories are used to...     

Influence of the Ionosphere on the Parameters of the GPS Navigation Signals during a Geomagnetic Substorm

Geomagnetism and Aeronomy - The influence of geomagnetic activity on slips of navigation signals of the global positioning system (GPS), as well as an increase in the amplitude of jumps in the...     

南海磁场特征研究

建立客观的磁力ΔT异常,获得可信的磁力ΔZ_⊥异常、居里面成果, 在此基础上开展综合地质地球物理研究,对于解决南海资源等相关的地质、地球物理问题意义重大.本文汇集我国历年在南海取得的磁力实测资料,重新处理、校正、整合,特别是追溯南海周边的国际地磁台的日变资料进行日变改正,形成的南海磁力ΔT异常,其资料品质得到了极大提高.采用全磁纬变倾角化极技术,获得磁力ΔZ_⊥异常,其与实测证实的磁性海山、海岛有非常好的匹配关系,建立起可以直接用于反演处理解释的南海磁力ΔZ_⊥异常.选择磁力ΔZ_⊥异常的小波多尺度分解四阶逼近,采用单一磁性界面反演技术进行深度反演,获得居里面又称磁性底界面.建立了认识、解释南海的磁场基础体系,证实了南海基性岩浆岩分布区与磁力ΔZ_⊥异常的正磁异常高密切相关,区域性的磁力ΔZ_⊥异常负磁异常区可能与居里面深度相关.     

Parameters of the Geomagnetic Activity,Thermosphere, and Ionosphere for the Ultimately Intense Magnetic Storm

Equations of regression are derived for the intense magnetic storms of 1957?2016. They reflect the nonlinear relation between Dst_min and the effective index of geomagnetic activity Ap(τ) with a timeweighted factor τ. Based on this and on known estimations of the upper limit of the magnetic storm intensity (Dst_min =–2500 nT), the maximal possible value Ap(τ)_max ~ 1000 nT is obtained. This makes it possible to obtain initial estimates of the upper limit of variations in some parameters of the thermosphere and ionosphere that are due to geomagnetic activity. It is found, in particular, that the upper limit of an increase in the thermospheric density is seven to eight times larger than for the storm in March 1989, which was the most intense for the entire space era. The maximum possible amplitude of the negative phase of the ionospheric storm in the number density of the F₂-layer maximum at midlatitudes is nearly six times higher than for the March 1989 storm. The upper limit of the F₂-layer rise in this phase of the ionospheric storm is also considerable. Based on qualitative analysis, it is found that the F₂-layer maximum in daytime hours at midlatitudes for these limiting conditions is not pronounced and even may be unresolved in the experiment, i.e., above the F₁-layer maximum, the electron number density may smoothly decrease with height up to the upper boundary of the plasmasphere.     

Evolution of High-Latitude Geomagnetic Disturbances during the Magnetic Storm of July 22, 2009

Geomagnetism and Aeronomy - The behavior of geomagnetic disturbances during a moderate CIR storm, the most intense magnetic storm of  2009 in the solar activity minimum are considered. It is...     

Estimation of the Ionospheric Effects of Geomagnetic Disturbances Based on Data from Wakkanai Station

Geomagnetism and Aeronomy - Ionosonde measurements of the critical frequency of the ionospheric F2 layer (foF2) at Wakkanai station (Japan) are analyzed with the method of superposed epochs. The...