Abstract
Abstract We present the results derived from measuring fundamental parameters of the ionospheric response to the August 11, 1999 total solar eclipse. Our study is based on using the data from about 70 GPS stations located in the neighbourhood of the eclipse totality phase in Europe. The key feature of our data is a higher reliability of determining the main parameters of the response to eclipse which is due to high space-time resolution and to the increased sensitivity of detection of ionospheric disturbances inherent in the GPS-array method which we are using. Our analysis revealed a well-defined effect of a decrease (depression) of the total electron content (TEC) for all GPS stations. The depth and duration of the TEC depression were found to be 0.2–0.3 TECU and 60 min, respectively. The delay τ between minimum TEC values with respect to the totality phase near the eclipse path increased gradually from 4 min in Greenwich longitude (10:40 UT, LT) to 18 min at the longitude 16° (12:09 LT). The local time-dependence of τ that is revealed in this paper is in agreement with theoretical estimates reported in (Stubbe, 1970).
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