Dynamics of IGW and traveling ionospheric disturbances in regions with sharp gradients of the ionospheric parameters

Abstract

© 2015 COSPAR. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. The dynamics of the 2D solitary nonlinear internal gravity waves (IGW), as well as traveling ionospheric disturbances (TID) of the electron density excited by them at heights of the ionosphere F-region, for conditions close to those of the F-layer assuming that the source of initial perturbation has the pulse character is studied analytically and numerically. On a level with general case the rather interesting applications when the sharp gradients of the ionospheric parameters are the functions of space coordinates and time, namely the IGW and TID dynamics in the frontal regions of the solar terminator and solar eclipse are considered. The results obtained describe the dynamical structure, evolution and transformation of the IGW and TID at heights of the ionosphere F-layer including its strongly heterogeneous regions.