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Event: 2012-07-06

SUMMARY OF THE EVENT: On July 5, a CME was en route to Earth (source: www.spaceweather.com). As a consequence, minor disturbances were observed in the Earth ionosphere above Europe the 6th of July 2012 with an increase of TEC during the day.

VTEC Time Series

Figure 1: VTEC Time Series

VTEC point locations

Figure 2: VTEC extracting locations

Figure 1 shows the time evolution of the Vertical Total Electron Content (VTEC) (in red) extracted from the near-real time VTEC maps at 3 different latitudes (Figure 2): a) Northern part (top), b) Brussels (middle) and c) Southern part (bottom). Also shown, the model based on the median from the 15 previous days (in grey).

About this event, see also:

  • Comparisons with the median of the last 15 days: here
  • about the origin of the ionospheric disturbances: spaceweather.com
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