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The characteristic U-shaped traces (cusps) in ionograms are associated with the passage of traveling ionospheric disturbances (TIDs), which lead to horizontal electron density gradients in the ionosphere and, therefore, to off-angle reflections in radio sounding. A new form of representation is considered for daily ionospheric sounding data. A compound parabolic layer model is proposed, which allows analytical calculation of ray paths to speed up the “homing-in” of the rays. Changes in the shape of the trace in the ionogram due to varying the TID characteristics are examined. A discussion is given of the possibilities for estimating TID characteristics from digitized vertical sounding ionograms.
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Original Russian Text © O.A. Laryunin, 2018, published in Geomagnetizm i Aeronomiya, 2018, Vol. 58, No. 2, pp. 259–266.
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Laryunin, O.A. Estimating the Characteristics of Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances from Vertical Incidence Ionograms within a Compound Parabolic Layer Model. Geomagn. Aeron. 58, 245–251 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016793218020147
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