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HF Doppler Observations of Ionospheric Disturbances over Taiwan

Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2015

Abstract

Results of observations of traveling ionospheric disturbances (TIDs) by the multipath continuous HF Doppler sounding system operating in Taiwan are presented. We analysed one-year long period of measurements from April 2014 to March 2015 and investigated horizontal velocities and azimuths of propagation of medium scale traveling ionospheric disturbances (MSTIDs) with periods from 4 min to 60 min.

Horizontal velocities range from ~ 100 m s^(-1) to ~ 300 m s^(-1) and MSTIDs propagate preferentially south-eastward in the local winter and preferentially northward in the local summer. The disturbances rarely propagate with azimuth in the range of 200-290o.