Effect of the total solar eclipse of March 20, 2015, on VLF/LF propagation


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The analyzed amplitude and phase variations in electromagnetic VLF and LF signals at 20–45 kHz, received in Moscow, Graz (Austria), and Sheffield (UK) during the total solar eclipse of March 20, 2015, are considered. The 22 analyzed paths have lengths of 200—6100 km, are differently oriented, and cross 40–100% occultation regions. Fifteen paths crossed the region where the occultation varied from 40 to 90%. Solar eclipse effects were found only on one of these paths in the signal phase (–50°). Four long paths crossed the 90–100% occultation region, and signal amplitude and phase anomalies were detected for all four paths. Negative phase anomalies varied from–75° to–90°, and the amplitude anomalies were both positive and negative and were not larger than 5 dB. It was shown that the effective height of the ionosphere varied from 6.5 to 11 km during the eclipse.

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M. Solovieva

Institute of Physics of the Earth

Email: rozhnoi@rambler.ru
Rússia, Bol’shaya Gruzinskaya ul. 10, Moscow, 123995

A. Rozhnoi

Institute of Physics of the Earth

Autor responsável pela correspondência
Email: rozhnoi@rambler.ru
Rússia, Bol’shaya Gruzinskaya ul. 10, Moscow, 123995

V. Fedun

University of Sheffield

Email: rozhnoi@rambler.ru
Reino Unido da Grã-Bretanha e Irlanda do Norte, Sheffield, S1 3JD

K. Schwingenschuh

Space Research Institute

Email: rozhnoi@rambler.ru
Áustria , 6 Schmiedlstraé, Graz, 8042

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