This Project aims to determine through numerical simulation the
effects which spacecraft launched in Norway have on the peripheral
ionospheric plasma environment in the observed region.
This is achieved through the cooperation of an autoregression forecasting algorithm, called Time Series AutoRegressive — TSAR (Koutroumbas et al. 2008), with the empirical Storm Time
Ionospheric Model — STIM (Tsagouri & Belehaki 2006, 2008) that formulates the ionospheric storm - time response based on solar wind input, exploiting recent advances in ionospheric storm dynamics that correlate the ionospheric storm effects with solar wind parameters (e.g., the magnitude of the IMF and its rate of change as well as the IMF's orientation in the north - south
Ionospheric Model — STIM (Tsagouri & Belehaki 2006, 2008) that formulates the
ionospheric storm - time response based on solar wind input, exploiting recent advances in ionospheric storm dynamics that correlate the ionospheric storm effects with solar wind parameters (e.g., the magnitude of the IMF and its rate of change as well as the IMF's orientation in the north - south
ionospheric storm - time response based on solar wind input, exploiting recent advances in
ionospheric storm dynamics that correlate the ionospheric storm effects with solar wind parameters (e.g., the magnitude of the IMF and its rate of change as well as the IMF's orientation in the north - south
ionospheric storm dynamics that correlate the
ionospheric storm effects with solar wind parameters (e.g., the magnitude of the IMF and its rate of change as well as the IMF's orientation in the north - south
ionospheric storm
effects with solar wind parameters (e.g., the magnitude of the IMF and its rate of change as well as the IMF's orientation in the north - south direction).
The analysis of the
effects of these magnetic disturbances, occurring within the period 2006 — 2009 on
ionospheric F2 - layer, showed significant departure of the main peak parameters from the corresponding 27 - days running means.
To evaluate the
effects of geomagnetic disturbances on the
ionospheric F2 - layer, we used hourly measurements of foF2 and hmF2 and their 27 - days running means centered on the culmination (minimum Dst) day of each analyzed geomagnetic disturbance.
In particular,
ionospheric disturbances caused by large - scale phenomena such as the prolonged negative and positive
effects observed all over Europe are sufficiently captured in ΔR12eff variation from the onset of the disturbance until the full recovery (Fig. 16).