Contact: iono@oma.be
Event: 2013-03-17
SUMMARY OF THE EVENT: The ionosphere was disturbed over Europe the 17/03/2013 with an abnormal increase of Total Electron Content (TEC) followed by a decrease the 18/03/2013. These ionospheric disturbances were due to the Solar Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) of the 15/03/2013, altering the geomagnetic activity to its storm level (k=5) on the 17/03/2013 (more information at: www.sidc.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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