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Medium-scale traveling ionospheric disturbances observed by GPS receiver network in Japan: a short review

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Medium-scale traveling ionospheric disturbances (MSTID) are wave-like perturbations of the ionospheric plasma with wavelengths of several hundred kilometres and velocities of several hundred metres per second. MSTID is one of the most common ionospheric phenomena that generally induce the perturbations of ionospheric total electron content (TEC) by ∼1016 electron/m2, which corresponds to ∼54 ns (16.2 cm) delay at GPS L1 signal. In the past decade, several new characteristics on MSTIDs have been revealed by the TEC observations using the dense GPS receiver network in Japan. In this paper, we provide a short review of these new observations and summarize the morphological characteristics of MSTIDs in Japan.

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The GPS data of GEONET are provided by the Geographical Survey Institute of Japan. GEONET-TEC database of Kyoto University is supported by Japan Society of the Promotion of Science (JSPS) with a grant-in-aid for publication of scientific research results. T.T. is supported by a grant of Research Fellowships of the JSPS for Young Scientists.

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  1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Haystack Observatory, Westford, USA

    Takuya Tsugawa

  2. Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

    Takuya Tsugawa, Nobuki Kotake & Yuichi Otsuka

  3. Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

    Akinori Saito

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Tsugawa, T., Kotake, N., Otsuka, Y. et al. Medium-scale traveling ionospheric disturbances observed by GPS receiver network in Japan: a short review. GPS Solut 11, 139–144 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10291-006-0045-5

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