Multi-Frequency SuperDARN HF Radar Observations of the Ionospheric Response to the October 2023 Annular Solar Eclipse

IF 4.6 1区地球科学 Q1 GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Geophysical Research Letters Pub Date : 2024-12-12 DOI:10.1029/2024gl112450

E. G. Thomas, S. G. Shepherd, B. S. R. Kunduri, D. R. Themens

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Abstract

An annular solar eclipse was visible on 14 October 2023 from 15:00–21:00 UT as its path traveled across North, Central, and South America. In this letter, we present the first multi-frequency Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN) observations of the bottomside ionospheric response to a solar eclipse using a novel experimental mode designed for the October 2023 annular eclipse. We compare our results from the mid-latitude Christmas Valley East radar with measurements of the vertical electron density profile from the nearby Boulder Digisonde, finding the changes in 1- and 2-hop ground scatter skip distance are well correlated with the

F_{2} ${F}_{2}$

-layer density response, which lags the peak obscuration by

\sim ${\sim} $

30 min. Changes in the line-of-sight Doppler shifts are better aligned with the time derivative of eclipse obscuration.

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Geophysical Research Letters 地学-地球科学综合

CiteScore

9.00

自引率

9.60%

发文量

1588

审稿时长

2.2 months

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