A brief review of equatorial plasma bubbles

AS Patil, DP Nade, A Taori, RP Pawar, SM Pawar… - Space Science …, 2023 - Springer
Equatorial plasma bubbles (EPBs) have long been studied and are becoming increasingly
important because they cause severe scintillations in radio waves from Global Navigation …

The GNSS NavAer INCT project overview and main results

JFG Monico, ER Paula, AO Moraes, E Costa… - Journal of Aerospace …, 2022 - SciELO Brasil
Air navigation is increasingly dependent on the use of Global Navigation Satellite Systems
(GNSS). It allows the determination of the aircraft's position in all phases of the flight and …

A statistical analysis of equatorial plasma bubble structures based on an all‐sky airglow imager network in China

L Sun, J Xu, W Wang, W Yuan, Q Li… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This paper investigates the statistical features of equatorial plasma bubbles (EPBs) using
airglow images from 2012 to 2014 from a ground‐based network of four imagers in the …

Why do equatorial ionospheric bubbles stop rising?

J Krall, JD Huba, SL Ossakow… - Geophysical Research …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) three‐dimensional simulation code SAMI3/ESF is
used to study the long time evolution of equatorial spread F (ESF) bubbles. The ESF …

Characteristics of mesospheric gravity waves near the magnetic equator, Brazil, during the SpreadFEx campaign

MJ Taylor, PD Pautet, AF Medeiros… - Annales …, 2009 - angeo.copernicus.org
As part of the SpreadFEx campaign, coordinated optical and radio measurements were
made from Brazil to investigate the occurrence and properties of equatorial Spread F, and to …

Downward drifting F‐region irregularity observed above an eastward drifting one before midnight on 4 March 2014

G Chen, M Zhang, C Yan, Q Zhang… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
On the night of 4 March 2014, the Hainan COherent Scatter Phased Array Radar (HCOPAR)
observed two irregularities appearing simultaneously in the radar scope at different height …

Airglow observations and modeling of F region depletion zonal velocities over Christmas Island

NP Chapagain, MJ Taylor… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
We report image measurements of plasma depletions in the equatorial F region ionosphere
over Christmas Island (2.1° N, 157.4° W; dip latitude 2.8° N) in the central Pacific Ocean. The …

Equatorial plasma bubble zonal velocity using 630.0 nm airglow observations and plasma drift modeling over Ascension Island

NP Chapagain, MJ Taylor, JJ Makela… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
We present OI (630.0 nm) airglow image data from Ascension Island (geographic: 7.9° S,
14.4° W; dip latitude: 16° S) in the southern Atlantic Ocean taken with the Utah State …

Estimating the drift velocity of plasma bubbles in airglow images using the scale invariant feature transform and the speeded up robust feature algorithms

M Yacoub, M Abdelwahab, K Shiokawa… - Advances in Space …, 2024 - Elsevier
Equatorial plasma bubbles (EPBs) are ionospheric irregularities that can significantly impact
radio communication, causing signal scintillation that leads to signal loss and error in …

Simultaneous mesosphere‐thermosphere‐ionosphere parameter measurements over Gadanki (13.5 N, 79.2 E): First results

A Taori, N Dashora, K Raghunath… - Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
We report first simultaneous airglow, lidar, and total electron content measurements in the
mesosphere‐thermosphere‐ionosphere system behavior from Gadanki (13.5° N, 79.2° E) …