دورية أكاديمية
Observations of ionospheric disturbances associated with the 2020 Beirut explosion by Defense Meteorological Satellite Program and ground-based ionosondes
العنوان: | Observations of ionospheric disturbances associated with the 2020 Beirut explosion by Defense Meteorological Satellite Program and ground-based ionosondes |
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المؤلفون: | R. Pradipta, P.-C. Lai |
المصدر: | Annales Geophysicae, Vol 42, Pp 301-312 (2024) |
بيانات النشر: | Copernicus Publications, 2024. |
سنة النشر: | 2024 |
المجموعة: | LCC:Science LCC:Physics LCC:Geophysics. Cosmic physics |
مصطلحات موضوعية: | Science, Physics, QC1-999, Geophysics. Cosmic physics, QC801-809 |
الوصف: | A major explosion that released a significant amount of energy into the atmosphere occurred in Beirut on 4 August 2020. The energy released may have reached the upper atmosphere and generated some traveling ionospheric disturbances (TIDs), which can affect radio wave propagation. In this study, we used data from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) and ground-based ionosondes in the Mediterranean region to investigate the ionospheric response to this historic explosion event. Our DMSP data analysis revealed a noticeable increase in the ionospheric electron density near the Beirut area following the explosion, accompanied by some wavelike disturbances. Some characteristic TID signatures were also identified in the shape of ionogram traces at several locations in the Mediterranean. This event occurred during a period of relatively quiet geomagnetic conditions, making the observed TIDs likely to have originated from the Beirut explosion, not from other sources such as auroral activities. These observational findings demonstrate that TIDs from the Beirut explosion were able to propagate over longer distances, beyond the immediate areas of Lebanon and Israel–Palestine, reaching the Mediterranean and eastern Europe. |
نوع الوثيقة: | article |
وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
اللغة: | English |
تدمد: | 0992-7689 1432-0576 |
Relation: | https://angeo.copernicus.org/articles/42/301/2024/angeo-42-301-2024.pdf; https://doaj.org/toc/0992-7689; https://doaj.org/toc/1432-0576 |
DOI: | 10.5194/angeo-42-301-2024 |
URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/0e40d539fcf14680a451512559a452d8 |
رقم الأكسشن: | edsdoj.0e40d539fcf14680a451512559a452d8 |
قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
تدمد: | 09927689 14320576 |
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DOI: | 10.5194/angeo-42-301-2024 |