Observations of ionospheric disturbances associated with the  2020 Beirut explosion by Defense Meteorological Satellite Program and ground-based ionosondes

Pradipta, Rezy; Lai, Pei-Chen

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-42-301-2024

Articles | Volume 42, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-42-301-2024

© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-42-301-2024

© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 42, issue 1

Regular paper

|

01 Jul 2024

Regular paper |

| 01 Jul 2024

Observations of ionospheric disturbances associated with the 2020 Beirut explosion by Defense Meteorological Satellite Program and ground-based ionosondes

Rezy Pradipta and Pei-Chen Lai

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-42-301-2024-supplement

Data sets

OMNI Hourly Data N. E. Papitashvili and J. H. King https://doi.org/10.48322/1shr-ht18

Solar Flare Index Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute at the Bogazici University https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/stp/space-weather/solar-data/solar-features/solar-flares/index/

Short summary

A large explosion released a significant amount of energy into the Earth's upper atmosphere in Beirut on 4 Aug 2020, generating traveling ionospheric disturbances (TIDs). These TIDs were observed in previous work using GPS total electron content measurements around Beirut. Here, we used measurements from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program and ionosondes in the Mediterranean to show that the TIDs from the Beirut explosion were able to reach greater distances than previously reported.