Occurrence of Ionospheric Scintillation during St. Patrick's Day Storm 17 March 2015
International Journal of Development Research
Occurrence of Ionospheric Scintillation during St. Patrick's Day Storm 17 March 2015
Received 17th May, 2024; Received in revised form 20th June, 2024; Accepted 14th July, 2024; Published online 30th August, 2024
Copyright©2024, Dr. Purushottam Bhawre. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The Ionospheric scintillation has a huge impact on radio propagation and electronic system performance, thus is substantially studied currently. The particular influence of scintillation on Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) is very evident, making GNSS a powerful medium to analyze characteristics of scintillation. Ionospheric scintillation differs in relationship with provisional, provisory and spatial distribution. Present study describing about the occurrence of ionospheric scintillation during the geomagnetic storm on 17 March 2015 over Darwin, Australia.1. The sudden storm commencement (SSC) was a quick drop of the SYM-H index to the value of −226 nT. The planetary index of the geomagnetic activity Kp reached the maximum value. During the main phase of the storm (17 March), the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) orientation displayed a highly complex behavior. The occurrence of phase scintillation activities was high before the storm period as compare with amplitude scintillation. During the strom period scintillation activities were noticed very low.
