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SUBMITTER: Kundu B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7854621 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kundu Bhaskar B Senapati Batakrushna B Matsushita Ai A Heki Kosuke K
Scientific reports 20210202 1
Atmospheric waves excited by strong surface explosions, both natural and anthropogenic, often disturb upper atmosphere. In this letter, we report an N-shaped pulse with period ~ 1.3 min propagating southward at ~ 0.8 km/s, observed as changes in ionospheric total electron content using continuous GNSS stations in Israel and Palestine, ~ 10 min after the August 4, 2020 chemical explosion in Beirut, Lebanon. The peak-to-peak amplitude of the disturbance reached ~ 2% of the background electrons, co ...[more]