Abstract Using the ground-based multi instruments observations in Hainan and Southeast Asia, as well as space-based observations, the long lasting events of ionospheric irregularities occurred in the equatorial region of East Asia on the night of March 31, 2014 are studied. Concurrent observations at Hainan station indicate that ionospheric irregularities measured with different instruments showed distinct spatial structures and temporal variation, mainly from sunset to midnight (19-23LT) and even to post midnight. The 3-m-scale irregularities detected by VHF radar first attenuated and disappeared at 01LT, then the 400-meter-scale irregularities (GPS scintillations) vanished at 03LT, and finally the larger-scale irregularities (spread F) ended at 05LT. It provides a directly observational evidence that the larger the scale is, the latter the irregularities decay after midnight. Ionospheric irregularities near the magnetic equator (ME) and the equatorial abnormal peaks (EAPs) mainly occurred from after sunset to midnight (19-01LT), but there were distinct morphological differences after midnight. The irregularities near ME were attenuated and disappeared rapidly, while irregularities near EAPs weakened obviously, but lasted until dawn. The plasma depletions observed by the SWARM satellite in the latter half of the night were clearly related to the TEC fluctuations at JOG2 site, the ionospheric scintillations and spread F at Hainan station. The quasiperiodic structures of plasma bubbles observed by C/NOFS satellite were clearly related to the occurrence of ionospheric irregularities in Hainan and Southeast Asia, which indicated that the seeding of atmospheric gravity waves may play an important role in the generation of ESF/EPB irregularities, even in the latter half of the night.


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    Title :

    Analysis of the long lasting events of ionospheric irregularities near the equatorial region of East Asia based on various observations


    Contributors:
    Shang, Sheping (author) / Shi, Jiankui (author) / Wang, Guojun (author) / Cheng, Zhengwei (author) / Wang, Zheng (author) / Wang, Xiao (author)

    Published in:

    Advances in Space Research ; 68 , 5 ; 2244-2255


    Publication date :

    2020-12-17


    Size :

    12 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English






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