Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5486389 | Advances in Space Research | 2017 | 25 Pages |
Abstract
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 500Â km to over 2000Â 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.
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Authors
Tobias Verhulst, David Altadill, Jens Mielich, Bodo Reinisch, Ivan Galkin, Angelos Mouzakis, Anna Belehaki, Dalia BureÅ¡ová, Stanimir Stankov, Estefania Blanch, Daniel Kouba,