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Geomagnetic conjugate observations of ionospheric disturbances in response to a North Korean underground nuclear explosion on 3 September 2017
Yi Liu
Department of Space Physics, School of Electronic Information, Wuhan
University, Wuhan, China
Department of Space Physics, School of Electronic Information, Wuhan
University, Wuhan, China
Qiong Tang
Department of Space Physics, School of Electronic Information, Wuhan
University, Wuhan, China
Guanyi Chen
Department of Space Physics, School of Electronic Information, Wuhan
University, Wuhan, China
Zhengyu Zhao
Department of Space Physics, School of Electronic Information, Wuhan
University, Wuhan, China
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Jing Liu, Dong-He Zhang, Anthea J. Coster, Shun-Rong Zhang, Guan-Yi Ma, Yong-Qiang Hao, and Zuo Xiao
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Carlos Sotomayor-Beltran and Laberiano Andrade-Arenas
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Lucas Schreiter, Daniel Arnold, Veerle Sterken, and Adrian Jäggi
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Comparing Swarm GPS-only gravity fields to the ultra-precise GRACE K-Band gravity field schematic errors occurs around the geomagnetic equator. Due to the end of the GRACE mission, and the gap to the GRACE-FO mission, only Swarm can provide a continuous time series of gravity fields. We present different and assess different approaches to remove the schematic errors and thus improve the quality of the Swarm gravity fields.
Le Ren and Steffen Schön
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Donat V. Blagoveshchensky, Olga A. Maltseva, and Maria A. Sergeeva
Ann. Geophys., 36, 1057–1071, https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-36-1057-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-36-1057-2018, 2018
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Short summary
Underground nuclear explosion (UNE) can produce ionospheric disturbances through a lithosphere–atmosphere–ionosphere coupling mechanism, which is very similar with earthquakes. By using the total electron content observations and Swarm ionospheric current data, we have investigated the geomagnetic conjugate ionospheric disturbances. We proposed that the electric field generated during the UNE test can be an important mechanism for ionospheric disturbance.
Underground nuclear explosion (UNE) can produce ionospheric disturbances through a...
