The thermosphere-ionosphere system is driven to a particularly high degree ... and to model and use the results to predict the formation of ionospheric disturbances and their propagation dynamics.

However, the researchers aim to continue investigating them to work out what's causing their formation in the ionosphere.

The ionosphere is not always a perfectly smooth ... It is his hope that by publishing the research and including all possible formation mechanisms, the scientific community can come together ...

How do you collect a lot of data about the ionosphere? Well, you could use sounding rockets or specialized gear. Or maybe you can just conscript a huge number of cell phones. That was the approach ...

NASA scientists have spotted unusual shapes in the Earth's ionosphere, hundreds of miles above the Earth's surface. The ionosphere stretches from 50 to 400 miles above the planet and marks the ...

A plan to use millions of smartphones to map out real-time variations in Earth’s ionosphere has been tested by researchers in the US. Developed by Brian Williams and colleagues at Google Research in ...

More information: Jamie Smith et al, Mapping the ionosphere with millions of phones, Nature (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-08072-x Provided by Nature Publishing Group ...

Data from millions of phones has helped produce the most complete map ever made of the ionosphere, part of Earth’s upper atmosphere. This could help us understand disturbances caused by ...

The effect of electron collisions on the polarization of waves reflected from the ionosphere is calculated by an iteration procedure and shown to be relatively small at night for both normal and ...