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STP12 Abstracts<br />

Berlin, 12 - 16 July <strong>2010</strong><br />

SCOSTEP Symposium <strong>2010</strong><br />

Ionospheric response to the space weather events during December 2006 in the South<br />

Pacific Region<br />

Kumar Sushil , Kumar Abhikesh<br />

School of Engineering <strong>an</strong>d Physics, The University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji<br />

We study the VLF perturbations on subionospheric signals from NWC (19.8 kHz), NPM<br />

(21.4 kHz), VTX3 (18.2 kHz), NLK (24.8 kHz) VLF tr<strong>an</strong>smitters monitored at Suva, Fiji,<br />

due to solar flares that occurred during 5-14 December 2006. A series of solar flares with<br />

classes from C1.7 to X9.0 occurred during 5-14 December that produced VLF perturbations<br />

on above VLF signals. An intense storm associated with coronal mass ejections <strong>an</strong>d solar<br />

flares of X class occurred at 14:14 UT on 14 December with a minimum Dst value of -145 nT<br />

at 0800 hrs on 15 December. A solar flare of class X1.5 occurred on 14 December 2006 at<br />

21:07 UT <strong>an</strong>d ended at 22:26 UT with its peak flux at 22:15 UT, during the main phase onset<br />

of this storm. Enh<strong>an</strong>cements in the amplitude (DA) of above VLF tr<strong>an</strong>smissions were<br />

determined. The values of DA were found to be in the r<strong>an</strong>ge of 3.6 - 8.8 dB for solar flares of<br />

C1.7 to X9.0 classes.The enh<strong>an</strong>cement in the amplitudes of VLF signals is due to the increase<br />

in the D-region electron density due to ionization enh<strong>an</strong>cements produced by the solar flares.<br />

An intense storm associated with coronal mass ejections <strong>an</strong>d solar flares of X class occurred<br />

at 14:14 UT on 14 December with a minimum Dst value of -145 nT at 0800 hrs UT on 15<br />

December. The storm-time effects in the F2-region during at Niue (19.06.2 o S, 169.93 o W) <strong>an</strong>d<br />

Townville (19.63 o S, 146.85 o E), low latitude stations near at the ionization <strong>an</strong>omaly crest, will<br />

be presented.

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