


The Cumbre Vieja volcano began erupting on 19 September, since destroying nearly Bitcoin is experiencing a strong price recovery at the start of.Huixin Liu, Editor, Space Weather Text © 2022. Significant ionospheric hole and equatorial plasma bubbles after the 2022 Tonga volcano eruption. These results demonstrate far-reaching and long-lasting atmosphere-ionosphere impacts from a devastating natural disaster and highlight new ways in which surface conditions can impact the upper atmosphere.Ĭitation: Aa, E., Zhang, S.-R., Erickson, P. These plasma bubble effects followed the consecutive sweep of the dusk terminator and arrival of eruption-excited Lamb waves and covered a wide longitudinal range of about 150 degrees with a duration around 12 hours. The authors also reported for the first time the presence of continuously triggered, strong postsunset equatorial plasma bubbles over the vast Asia-Oceania area that were anomalously beyond the climatological behavior in January. Driven by intense shock-acoustic wave impulses, the eruption created a large-amplitude ionospheric hole of more than 10 TEC units with a horizontal radius of 10-15 degrees above the epicenter around 40 minutes after the eruption. found large-scale, intense ionospheric density depletions that appeared in different ways as a prominent ionospheric hole and as equatorial plasma bubbles. Using multiple ground/satellite observations, Aa et al. The catastrophic Tonga volcano eruption on 15 January 2022 triggered giant atmospheric waves that propagated into and strongly impacted the global ionosphere. Editors’ Highlights are summaries of recent papers by AGU’s journal editors.
