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Event: 2016-01-20

SUMMARY OF THE EVENT: Following the CME of the 18th January, minor to moderate geomagnetic storms disturbed the ionosphere on the 20th of January. The Total Electron Content was increased with a maximum of 10 TECu during the sunshine hours above Europe and was unstable during the night until early morning of the 21st of January.

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: www.sidc.be
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