Working Meeting - Real-time identification of Travelling Ionospheric Disturbances

Anna Belehaki (National Observatory of Athens)
Friday 18th, 15:00 - 16:30, Ridderzaal

Travelling Ionospheric Disturbances (TIDs) are the ionospheric signatures of atmospheric gravity waves. TIDs carry along information about their sources of excitations which may be either natural (energy input from the auroral region, earthquakes/tsunamis, hurricanes, solar terminator, and others) or artificial (ionospheric modification experiments, nuclear explosions, and other powerful blasts like industrial accidents). TIDs contribute to the energy and momentum exchange between different regions of the ionosphere, especially during geomagnetic storms. Their tracking is important because the TIDs affect all services that rely on predictable ionospheric radio wave propagation. In this working meeting we will discuss progress in identifying TIDs exploiting the European network of high precision ionospheric DPS4D sounders (and the related software) and to specify in real-time the TID wave parameters based on measuring the variations of the angles-of-arrival and Doppler frequencies of ionospherically reflected high-frequency (HF) radio signals. In this meeting, experts will also review progress on the real-time processing system of the TID observations for diagnostics and warnings purposes of TIDs and associated potential disturbances over the area. Based on these warnings, the end-users would be able to put in action specific mitigation techniques to protect their systems.