Advanced GNSS for Ionospheric Sounding and Disturbances Monitoring

Dear Colleagues,

The ionosphere is an important part of the Earth’s upper atmosphere. Many space weather events, such as solar wind, solar flare, coronal mass ejection, and geomagnetic storm, can cause ionospheric disturbances. Natural disasters, such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, and typhoons, can also trigger ionospheric distrubances. The global navigation satellite system (GNSS) is a well-established ionospheric observing system which can accurately sense ionospheric total electron content, ionosphric density, ionospheric storms, travelling ionospheric disturbances, sudden ionospheric disturbances, and so on. The advanced GNSS has heralded a new era of ionospheric sounding and severe space weather monitoring. The effective monitoring and timely forecasting of severe space weather events are expected to help prevent disasters and protect lives on our planet. To take advantage of the advanced GNSS technique, this Special Issue mainly focuses on papers that address a series of topics, including (but not limited to) the following:

• Advanced GNSS ionoshperic sounding and data processing;
• The data mining of ionospheric products;
• The monitoring of ionospheric disturbances using GNSS techniques;
• Severe space weather events forecasting;
• Ionospheric disturbances triggered by solar wind, solar flare, and cornal mass ejection;
• Ionospheric disturbances triggered by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, and typhoons.

Miscellaneous interdisciplinary studies and new applications in ionosphere, atmosphere, meteorology, and climatology fields are also welcome.

Dr. Qiang Zhang
Dr. Guangxing Wang
Dr. Xing Su
Guest Editors

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