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Understanding Mid-Latitude Space Weather: Storm Impacts Observed At Blo On 31 March 2001, Jan Josef Sojka, D. Rice, J. V. Eccles, F. T. Berkey, P. Kintner, W. Denig Jan 2004

Understanding Mid-Latitude Space Weather: Storm Impacts Observed At Blo On 31 March 2001, Jan Josef Sojka, D. Rice, J. V. Eccles, F. T. Berkey, P. Kintner, W. Denig

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On 30 March 2001 in the late evening an auroral display was observed over the United States of America. The Bear Lake Observatory (BLO) magnetometer in Utah measured changes of 550 nT in less than 30 min. During the same period, BLO ionosonde measurements showed deep high-frequency radio wave absorption up to 7 MHz. BLO's GPS single-frequency receiver experienced geolocation errors of 20 m for over 3 hours. These storm signatures were also accompanied by L-band scintillation effects which approached an S4 value of 0.2, which is large for midlatitudes. Although such measurements have been have been made at …