Articles | Volume 42, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-42-301-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-42-301-2024
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01 Jul 2024
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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

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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.