TY - JOUR
AU - Liu, Lei
AU - Morton, Y. Jade
AU - Cheng, Pin-Hsuan
AU - Amores, Angel
AU - Wright, Corwin J.
AU - Hoffmann, Lars
TI - Concentric Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances (CTIDs) Triggered by the 2022 Tonga Volcanic Eruption
JO - JGR / Space physics
VL - 128
IS - 2
SN - 0148-0227
CY - Hoboken, NJ
PB - Wiley
M1 - FZJ-2023-01250
SP - e2022JA030656
PY - 2023
AB - This paper investigates concentric traveling ionospheric disturbances (CTIDs) associated with the Tonga volcanic eruption. Results show that: (a) two types of CTIDs (CTID #1 and CTID #2) were identified that traveled radially from Tonga at the speed of 610–880 m/s (acoustic-mode) and 300–380 m/s (Lamb-mode), respectively. CTID #1 reached 3,800 and 5,000 km away from the eruption location toward the directions of New Zealand and Australia, respectively. CTID #2 propagated persistently for ∼9 hr over New Zealand and Australia. (b) The CTID #2 wavefront changed after 08:35 UT over New Zealand, possibly due to a combination of factors including the anisotropic propagation of CTID #2, the regional geomagnetic declination, and westward-moving Lamb waves. (c) Topside total electron content (TEC) enhancement with a magnitude over two TECu was observed from COSMIC-2 measurements. The enhancement agrees with CTID #1 peak from nearby ground-based TEC observations and could be related to the upward propagation of the F layer’s CTID #1 signatures.
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DO - DOI:10.1029/2022JA030656
UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1002268
ER -