First joint observations of space weather events over Mexico
<p>The Mexican Space Weather Service (SCiESMEX in Spanish) and National Space Weather Laboratory (LANCE in Spanish) were organized in 2014 and in 2016, respectively, to provide space weather monitoring and alerts, as well as scientific research in Mexico. In this work, we present the resu...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2018-10-01
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| Series: | Annales Geophysicae |
| Online Access: | https://www.ann-geophys.net/36/1347/2018/angeo-36-1347-2018.pdf |
| Summary: | <p>The Mexican Space Weather Service (SCiESMEX in Spanish) and
National Space Weather Laboratory (LANCE in Spanish) were organized in 2014
and in 2016, respectively,
to provide
space weather monitoring and alerts, as well as scientific research in
Mexico. In this work, we present the results of the first joint observations
of two events (22 June and 29 September 2015) with our local network of
instruments and their related products. This network includes the MEXART
radio telescope (solar flare and radio burst), the Compact Astronomical
Low-frequency, Low-cost Instrument for Spectroscopy in Transportable
Observatories (CALLISTO) at the MEXART station (solar radio burst), the Mexico
City Cosmic Ray Observatory (cosmic ray fluxes), GPS receiver networks
(ionospheric disturbances), and the Teoloyucan Geomagnetic Observatory (geomagnetic field). The observations show that we detected significant space
weather effects over the Mexican territory: geomagnetic and ionospheric
disturbances (22 June 2015), variations in cosmic ray fluxes, and also radio
communications' interferences (29 September 2015). The effects of these
perturbations were registered, for the first time, using space weather
products by SCiESMEX: total electron content (TEC) maps, regional geomagnetic index <i>K</i><sub>mex</sub>,
radio spectrographs of low frequency, and cosmic ray fluxes. These results
prove the importance of monitoring space weather phenomena in the region and
the need to strengthening the instrumentation network.</p> |
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| ISSN: | 0992-7689 1432-0576 |