Responding Ionosphere to the Geomagnetic Conditions over the Globe and its interconnection

Abstract:

Geomagnetic Storms are the response of the Earth’s Magnetosphere to extreme Space Weather conditions. Being electrical in nature and threaded by earth’s magnetic field lines the ionosphere do reflect the space weather effects in its content and distribution. Due to dipolar characteristics of earth’s magnetic field it has spatially varying intensity and direction over the globe. Keeping such facts in mind a thorough study of ionospheric responses to Geomagnetic Storms and Substorms has been undertaken in the present study. We have taken the ionospheric parameters foF2 and TEC to understand the effects and a global map is being made so that the magnetospheric dynamics can be understood in light of ionospheric disturbances. We got found with promising results of different variations of ionospheric parameters at different latitudinal and longitudinal locations over the globe.