Global distribution of GPS losses of phase lock and total electron content slips during the 2005 May 15 and the 2003 November 20 magnetic storms

Yury Yasyukevich; Elvira Astafyeva; Ilya Zhivetiev; Aleksey P. Maksikov

doi:10.12737/13459

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION OF GPS LOSSES OF PHASE LOCK AND TOTAL ELECTRON CONTENT SLIPS DURING THE 2005 MAY 15 AND THE 2003 NOVEMBER 20 MAGNETIC STORMS Global distribution of GPS losses of phase lock and total electron content slips during the 2005 May 15 and the 2003 November 20 magnetic storms

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Published in Solnechno-Zemnaya Fizika · Volume 1, Issue 4 · Pages 58–65 · Rubric: Results of current research

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12737/13459

Received: 08.10.2015 Accepted: 17.12.2015 Published: 17.12.2015 Language of publication: RUS

Authors

Yury Yasyukevich

Elvira Astafyeva

Ilya Zhivetiev

Aleksey P. Maksikov

Yury Yasyukevich

Academic degree: candidate of physical and mathematical sciences

Institute of Solar Terrestrial Physics SB RAS Russian Federation · Irkutsk

Irkutsk State University Russian Federation · Irkutsk

Elvira Astafyeva

Academic degree: candidate of physical and mathematical sciences

Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris France · Paris

Ilya Zhivetiev

Academic degree: candidate of physical and mathematical sciences

Institute of Cosmophysical Research and Radio Wave Propa-gation FEB RAS Russian Federation · Paratunka

Kamchatka State Technical University Russian Federation · Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky

Aleksey P. Maksikov

Irkutsk State University Russian Federation · Irkutsk

ABSTRACT

Using data of worldwide network of GPS receivers we investigated losses of GPS phase lock (LoL) during two strong magnetic storms. At fundamental L1 frequency, LoL density is found to increase up to 0.25 % and at L2 frequency the increase is up to 3 %. This is several times as much compared with the background level. During the 2003 November 20 magnetic storm, the number of total electron content (TEC) slips exceeded the background level ~50 times. During superstorms, the most number of GPS LoL is observed at low and high latitudes. At the same time, the area of numerous TEC slips correspond to auroral oval boundaries.

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magnetic storm, GPS, loss of phase lock, TEC slips, auroral oval

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Глобальные навигационные спутниковые системы (ГНСС) предоставили широкие возможности для решения задач позиционирования по всему земному шару [Hofmann-Wellenhof etal., 1992], а также задач мониторинга ионосферной плазмы в глобальном масштабе [Афраймович, Перевалова, 2006; Afraimovich etal., 2013]. Во время магнитных бурь ионосфера претерпевает существенные изменения. Отдельные явления, называемые супербурями, приводят к качественному изменению глобальной динамики ионосферной плазмы: может наблюдаться развитие суперфонтан-эффекта, при котором значения полного электронного содержания (ПЭС) в гребнях экваториальной аномалии достигают 180–200 TECU, а также регистрируется значительное смещение гребней экваториальной аномалии на 10–15° от положения в спокойных условиях [Tsurutani etal., 2004; Mannucci et al., 2005;Astafyevaetal., 2007; Astafyeva, 2009a, b].

Ионосферные эффекты во время сильных бурь могут приводить к нарушению работы радиотехнических систем, в том числе и ГНСС. Мерцания амплитуды навигационного сигнала вследствие рассеяния на мелкомасштабных неоднородностях, а также мерцания фазы могут приводить к срыву сопровождения фазы сигнала и невозможности осуществлять оценку радиофизических параметров сигнала. Наиболее существенно на параметры сигнала влияют неоднородности размером порядка первой зоны Френеля [Yeh, Liu, 1982; Pietal., 1997], для частот GPS (1.227 и 1.575 ГГц) это 150–300 м (для неоднородностей, расположенных на высотах E- и F-областей) [Yeh, Liu, 1982; Pietal., 1997; Afraimovichetal., 2009].

Опубликовано большое количество работ, посвященных устойчивости GPS во время геомагнитных возмущений [Skone, deJong, 2000, 2001; Dohertyetal., 2001; Afraimovichetal., 2002, 2003, 2011; Ledvinaetal., 2002; Jakowskietal., 2005, 2007; Basuetal., 2008; RamaRaoetal., 2009; Bergeotetal., 2011; Pi et al., 2011, 2013]. При этом в литературе практически не исследуются ни зависимость этих эффектов от интенсивности бури, ни пространственные особенности таких эффектов в глобальном масштабе.

В настоящей статье рассматриваются фазовые сбои GPS во время двух бурь: 15 мая 2005 г. и 20 ноября 2003 г. Буря 20 ноября 2003 г. является одной из супербурь 23-го цикла солнечной активности. Для бури 15 мая отсутствуют уверенные свидетельства в пользу того, что данное событие является супербурей, например смещение гребней экваториальной аномалии или значительное увеличение электронной концентрации в дневной ионосфере [Astafyeva, 2009a; Abreuetal., 2010].

Целью настоящей работы является анализ пространственного распределения срывов сопровождения фазы и сбоев измерения ПЭС во время указанных магнитных бурь.

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