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November 2003 Event: Effects on the Earth's Ionosphere Observed From Annales Geophysicae, 23, 3027–3034, 2005 SRef-ID: 1432-0576/ag/2005-23-3027 Annales © European Geosciences Union 2005 Geophysicae November 2003 event: effects on the Earth’s ionosphere observed from ground-based ionosonde and GPS data E. Blanch1, D. Altadill1, J. Boskaˇ 2, D. Buresovˇ a´2, and M. Hernandez-Pajares´ 3 1Observatori de l’Ebre, URL – CSIC, Roquetes, Spain 2Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Academy of Sciences CR, Prague, Czech Republic 3Technical University of Catalonia, UPC/gAGE, Barcelona, Spain Received: 9 February 2005 – Revised: 2 September 2005 – Accepted: 22 September 2005 – Published: 22 November 2005 Part of Special Issue “1st European Space Weather Week (ESWW)” Abstract. Intense late-cycle solar activity during Octo- ization. One of the main characteristics of the disturbed ber and November 2003 produced two strong geomagnetic ionosphere is a great degree of variability. Due to many in- storms: 28 October–5 November 2003 (October) and 19– teracting factors, each storm could show a different course. 23 November 2003 (November); both reached intense ge- During geomagnetic storms the electron density can either omagnetic activity levels, Kp=9, and Kp=8+, respectively. increase (positive ionospheric storm) or decrease (negative The October 2003 geomagnetic storm was stronger, but the ionospheric storm). The electric fields, thermospheric merid- effects on the Earth’s ionosphere in the mid-latitude Euro- ional winds, a “composition bulk” and high latitude parti- pean sector were more important during the November 2003 cle precipitation have been suggested as probable physical storm. The aim of this paper is to discuss two significant mechanisms to explain the ionospheric response to storm- effects observed on the ionosphere over the mid-latitude Eu- induced disturbances observed at different altitudes and lati- ropean sector produced by the November 2003 geomagnetic tudes (Fuller-Rowell et al., 1994; Prolls,¨ 2004). Severe iono- storm, using data from ground ionosonde at Chilton (51.5◦ N; spheric disturbances originated by solar flares have signifi- 359.4◦ E), Pruhonice (50.0◦ N; 14.6◦ E) and El Arenosillo cant effects on the propagation of radio waves over the en- (37.1◦ N; 353.3◦ E), jointly with GPS data. These effects are tire radio spectrum, which is crucial for radio communica- the presence of well developed anomalous storm Es layers tions and navigation systems (Ondoh and Marubashi, 2001; observed at latitudes as low as 37◦ N and the presence of two Thomson et al., 2004). Studies of the ionospheric reaction thin belts: one having enhanced electron content and other, to geomagnetic storms are of great importance and there are depressed electron content. Both reside over the mid-latitude numerous publications on the topic (e.g. Buonsanto, 1999; European evening sector. Danilov, 2001; Lastovicka, 2002; Mansilla, 2004; and many others). Nevertheless, many features of this phenomenon are Keywords. Ionosphere (Mid-latitude ionosphere; Iono- still not clear due to many different processes interacting in spheric Disturbances; Particle Precipitation) the Earth’s atmospheric system. Between 18 October and 5 November of 2003, in a de- 1 Introduction scending phase 11-year solar sunspot cycle, two periods of a suddenly enhanced solar activity, primary caused by two A geomagnetic storm is the most important space weather different, large, sunspot groups, occurred. There were eleven phenomenon from the point of view of the impact on large X-class flares during this period. On 28 October 2003, the global magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere system. a powerful solar flare X17 erupted from giant sunspot 486. The storm is supplied by solar wind energy, captured by the It struck the Earth on 29 October, and was responsible for magnetosphere, and transformed and dissipated in the high- the 28 October–5 November 2003 geomagnetic storm (also latitude upper atmosphere. It affects the complex morphol- known as the Halloween event). In the middle of November, ogy of the electric fields, winds, temperature and composi- all sunspots that caused intense space weather effects in Oc- tion, and it causes changes in the state of ionospheric ion- tober were again visible on the Earth-facing side of the Sun. In this case it was the solar flare X28 coming from sunspot Correspondence to: E. Blanch 484 that was responsible for the 19–23 November 2003 geo- ([email protected]) magnetic storm. The X28 flare has been the largest one since 3028 E. Blanch et al.: November 2003 event: effects on the Earth’s ionosphere Table 1. List of the ground-ionosonde stations used in this study. for civil aviation navigation among others, can be affected (Hernandez-Pajares et al., 2005). Using both data types, ground-ionosonde and GPS, we can observe two distinct ef- Station – URSI Code Geographic position (◦) System fects on the mid-latitude ionosphere over the European Sec- Chilton – RL052 51.5 N, 359.4 E DPS1 tor: the generation of anomalous storm sporadic E layers Pruhonice – PQ052 50.0 N; 14.6 E IPS42 (similar to auroral Es layers), probably formed by energetic El Arenosillo – EA036 37.1 N; 353.3 E DGS 256 particle precipitation and with virtual heights of about 150– 200 km at latitudes as low as 37◦ N, and the generation of two thin longitudinal belts of VTEC, one with enhanced VTEC and the other with depressed VTEC. GOES began its solar measurements in 1976 (Woods et al., 2004). Large fluxes of particles were sent to the Earth from 29 to 31 October 2003, and the magnetic field component 2 Data parallel to the Earth’s rotation axis (H ) dropped to −150 nT p The Helio-Geophysical background for the November 2003 twice, as recorded by the GOES-10 satellite. Moreover, event is obtained from several data sources. The IMF the estimated planetary K-index (K ) reached severe storm p data are obtained from ACE MAG Level 2 data, and the levels for almost three days, the planetary A -index (A ) p p Solar Wind velocity and density are obtained from ACE reached values as high as 400 nT and the D index dropped st SWEPAM Level 2, both provided by the ACE Science Center twice below −340 nT (−349 nT on 29 October and −401 nT (ASC) (http://www.srl.caltech.edu/ACE/ASC/). ACE orbits on 30 October). Despite the high values of the Interplan- the L1 libration point, which is a point of Earth-Sun grav- etary Magnetic Field (IMF) as recorded by the Solar Wind itational equilibrium about 1.5 million km from the Earth Electron Proton Alpha Monitor instrument (SWEPAM) on and 148.5 million km from the Sun. With a semi-major the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE), these were not axis of approximately 200 000 km the elliptical orbit affords unprecedented and a high magnetic field disturbance lasted ACE a prime view of the Sun and the galactic regions be- only for a short time. Moreover, although the IMF proton yond. Proton fluxes and the magnetic field component par- density recorded by SWEPAM on ACE was uncertain for allel to the Earth’s rotation axis (H ) at geostationary orbit much of the highest solar wind speed (1850 km/s), the rel- p distance from the Earth are obtained from GOES-10 satel- atively low proton density led to a moderate dynamic pres- lite data (longitude of 135◦ W) at the Space Environment sure. The latter, together with a short-lived negative B com- z Center (http://sec.noaa.gov/Data/). The geomagnetic activ- ponent of the IMF, were the reasons why the October 2003 ity indices A and D are obtained from the International event was not unusually geoeffective, as it was expected to p st Service of Geomagnetic Indices (ISIG) of the International be. However, an even larger geomagnetic storm with D st Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA) at reaching −470 nT occurred 3 weeks later, on 20 November http://www.cetp.ipsl.fr/∼isgi/homepag1.htm. 2003 when the solar wind speed was only ∼750 km/s. Simi- The effects on the Earth’s ionosphere during the November lar storms were produced by the 15 July 2000 and 31 March 2003 geomagnetic storm were observed from ground-based 2001 solar events (Skoug et al., 2004). ionosonde and GPS data. Table 1 shows the ionosonde sta- The aim of this paper is to show and discuss some effects tions involved in this study. Data from Pruhonice and El observed on the ionosphere from several European ionoson- Arenosillo were supplied directly from each observatory and des and Global Positioning System (GPS) stations during the Chilton data were obtained via ftp from WDCC1 at RAL, November 2003 geomagnetic storm. A discussion of the ftp://wdcc1.bnsc.rl.ac.uk/. Helio-Geophysical background for the November 2003 event Ground-based ionosonde offers high resolution data up to is introduced. Taking into account the global extent of the the ionospheric F region maximum electron density height great geomagnetic storms and the strong gradients involved, h F , providing a vertical electron density profile (N(h)). the simultaneously monitoring of a large ionospheric area is m 2 We computed the “true height” profiles of plasma frequency advantageous. The GPS data enables us to carry out electron (f ) in the altitude range from 90 to 800 km for Chilton and concentration measurements along a slant signal path and p El Arenosillo ionograms. Note that f is related to the elec- to obtain Vertical Total Electron Content (VTEC) by sim- p tron density by the well-known expression ple mathematical formalism. The availability of ionosonde data (with high vertical resolution) and ground GPS (with 1 2 N= fp , (1) high spatial and temporal resolution) brings important in- 80.6 −3 formation for the study of the ionosphere.
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