Estimation of Ionosphere Electron Density Structure Related to the Solar Terminator
Andreyev A. Somsikov V. Kapytin V. Chsherbulova Y. Utebayev S.
October 2025Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
Atmosphere
2025#16Issue 10
The solar terminator, due to its unique characteristics, is a remarkable source of atmospheric disturbances. Due to its regularity and constancy, dependent solely on geometric factors, it can serve as a test source of disturbances, which can be used to test the response of the medium through which it passes and determine its state. However, our knowledge of the atmospheric phenomena generated by the terminator is far from complete. One clear indication of the terminator’s influence is geomagnetic disturbances manifested in the vertical and eastward components of the magnetic field measured at magnetic observatories. To determine the sources of geomagnetic disturbances from the solar terminator, which can be identified by the strict phase correlation of these disturbances with the moments of terminator passage, ionospheric irregularities arising during terminator passage were studied. Ionospheric irregularities extending along the boundary of the morning solar terminator were detected in total electron content data, based on measurements by GNSS receivers. Assumptions are made about the possible parameters of the ionospheric current structure that creates variations in the magnetic field associated with the passage of the solar terminator.
geomagnetic field variations , GNSS TEC , solar terminator
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Institute of Ionosphere, Almaty, 050020, Kazakhstan
Department of Physics and Technology, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, 050040, Kazakhstan
Institute of Ionosphere
Department of Physics and Technology
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