Vertical and oblique HF sounding with a network of synchronised ionosondes

0478339 - ÚFA 2018 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Verhulst, T. - Altadill, D. - Mielich, J. - Reinisch, B. - Galkin, I. - Mouzakis, A. - Belehaki, A. - Burešová, Dalia - Stankov, S. - Blanch, E. - Kouba, Daniel
Vertical and oblique HF sounding with a network of synchronised ionosondes.
Advances in Space Research. Roč. 60, č. 8 (2017), s. 1644-1656. ISSN 0273-1177. E-ISSN 1879-1948
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GC15-07281J
Institutional support: RVO:68378289
Keywords : travelling ionospheric disturbances * digisonde * oblique sounding * ionospheric electromagnetic wave propagation * ionospheric measurement
OECD category: Meteorology and atmospheric sciences
Impact factor: 1.529, year: 2017
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A network of ionosondes in Europe has been established to monitor travelling ionospheric disturbances (TIDs) by simultaneously making vertical and oblique incidence HF sounding measurements. This network is the outcome of the Net-TIDE project, a collaboration between European Digisonde operators that have synchronised the sounding schedules of the Digisondes in order to record vertical and oblique ionogram traces simultaneously, and have added Digisonde-to-Digisonde (D2D) fixed frequency oblique-incidence measurements to the measurement schedule. The distances between the observatories involved in the project range from 500. km to over 2000. km. The technical feasibility of this network approach is explored. The challenge for the fixed-frequency D2D skymap measurements is the automatic selection of the sounding frequencies depending on the geometry of the sounding paths, the diurnal and seasonal ionospheric changes, and space weather induced events. © 2017 COSPAR.
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