Contact: iono@oma.be
Event: 2013-03-01
SUMMARY OF THE EVENT: The Total Electron Content (TEC) in the ionosphere was disturbed over Europe during the day of the 01/03/2013 between 9:15 and 14:30 UTC, and between 18:00 an 21:30 UTC. The peak of the disturbance was at noon and is characterized with an increase of the TEC over Europe of +17 TECu in average. These ionospheric disturbances can be corrolated with the increase of the geomagnetic index Kp (Kp=5 at Dourbes) (more information at www.sidc.be and www.swans.meteo.be ).
 Figure 1: VTEC Time Series |
 Figure 2: VTEC extracting locations |
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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:
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