Atmospheric Disturbances: Detecting, Modelling and Influences on Natural Phenomena and Propagation of Telecommunication, GNSS and EO Signal Propagation

Dear Colleagues,

Research on atmospheric disturbances is significant for science, as well as for technological applications, including telecommunications, global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) and earth observation (EO). As the terrestrial outer layer, the atmosphere is under permanent influences from the outer space. Furthermore, a coupling exists between the different atmosphere regions and the Earth’s crust.

Changes in atmospheric parameters due to extra-terrestrial and terrestrial phenomena affect the propagation of electromagnetic signals in the atmosphere. The analysis of these changes and the study of their relationships with the aforementioned phenomena is becoming increasingly interesting for Earth scientists. The multidisciplinary character of these studies and the need for different kinds of data, both in situ measurements and Earth observation datasets acquired by satellite and ground-based infrastructures, require the collaboration of researchers working in different scientific fields and the collection and processing heterogeneous datasets.

This Special Issue will present new advances in techniques to detect atmospheric disturbances, models, investigations of their relationship with natural phenomena (e.g., earthquakes, hurricanes, etc.) and mitigation of their impact on the propagation of telecommunication, GNSS and EO signals.

We encourage submissions of new researches related, but not limited, to the following topics:

• Techniques for detection of atmospheric disturbance;
• Modelling of atmospheric disturbances;
• Relationship between natural phenomena (e.g., earthquakes, hurricanes, etc.) and atmospheric disturbances;
• Databases and Earth observation datasets useful for studies on atmospheric disturbances;
• Influences of atmospheric disturbances on telecommunication, GNSS and Earth observation signal propagation.

Dr. Aleksandra Nina
Dr. Giovanni Nico
Dr. Vladimir Srećković
Guest Editors

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