Discussion paper: Macroscale ionospheric irregularities...

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEOMAGNETISM AND AERONOMY VOL. 5, GI1002, doi:10.1029/2003GI000038, 2004

Discussion paper: Macroscale ionospheric irregularities registered by the Mir onboard ionosonde

N. P. Danilkin, Yu. K. Kalinin, and N. G. Kotonaeva
Institute of Applied Geophysics, Moscow, Russia

I. L. Larichev, and N. P. Sergeenko
Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation, Troitsk, Moscow Region, Russia

Abstract

[1] A joint consideration of the anomalous ionograms registered on board Mir space station (and interpreted as ionospheric irregularities with sharp lateral gradients) and macroirregularities of the ionosphere detected by ground-based ionosondes. A hypothesis is proposed and analyzed that these irregularities detected by two principally different methods have a seismogenic nature.

Received 4 April 2003; accepted 6 February 2004; published 28 July 2004.

Keywords: Satellite radiosounding; Ionospheric irregularities; Earthquakes.

Index Terms: 2439 Ionosphere: Ionospheric irregularities; 2494 Ionosphere: Instruments and techniques; 7215 Seismology: Earthquake parameters.

Citation: Danilkin, N. P., Yu. K. Kalinin, N. G. Kotonaeva, I. L. Larichev, and N. P. Sergeenko (2004), Discussion paper: Macroscale ionospheric irregularities registered by the Mir onboard ionosonde, Int. J. Geomagn. Aeron., 5, GI1002, doi:10.1029/2003GI000038.