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This study detected and analyzed pre-earthquake ionospheric anomalies (PEIA) by using TEC data from the Royal Observatory of Belgium (ROB), and analyzed coseismic ionospheric disturbance (CID) with vertical TEC (VTEC) from the GPS stations in earthquake preparation areas. The results show that PEIA appear to increase continuously from 08:00\u201312:00 UT in the 3 days before a seismic swarm of Mw &gt; 5.0. The ionosphere over the seismogenic zones exhibited large-scale anomalies when multiple seismogenic zones of the Balkan Peninsula spatially and temporally overlapped. Moreover, the TEC around the earthquake centers showed a positive anomaly lasting for 7 h. In a single seismogenic zone in Greece, the TEC around the earthquake center reached over +3.42 TECu. In addition, the CID observed from GPS stations shows that with the increase in the number of earthquakes, the ionosphere over the seismogenic area is more obviously disturbed, and after three strong earthquakes, TEC suddenly decreased over the seismogenic area and formed a phenomenon similar to an ionospheric hole. We conclude that a lithosphere\u2013atmosphere\u2013ionosphere coupling mechanism existed before the seismic swarm appeared in the Balkan Peninsula. Earthquake-induced VTEC anomalies occurred more frequently within a 3\u201310 day window before the earthquake. This phenomenon is particularly evident when multiple seismogenic zones overlap spatiotemporally.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14194759","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,9,26]],"date-time":"2022-09-26T03:34:17Z","timestamp":1664163257000},"page":"4759","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Lithosphere Ionosphere Coupling Associated with Seismic Swarm in the Balkan Peninsula from ROB-TEC and GPS"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Lvquan","family":"Wei","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Geomatics and Geoinformation, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin 541004, China"},{"name":"Guangxi Key Laboratory of Spatial Information and Geomatics, Guilin 541004, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7523-2672","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Junyu","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Geomatics and Geoinformation, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin 541004, China"},{"name":"Guangxi Key Laboratory of Spatial Information and Geomatics, Guilin 541004, China"}]},{"given":"Lilong","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Geomatics and Geoinformation, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin 541004, China"},{"name":"Guangxi Key Laboratory of Spatial Information and Geomatics, Guilin 541004, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4241-3730","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Liangke","family":"Huang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Geomatics and Geoinformation, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin 541004, China"},{"name":"Guangxi Key Laboratory of Spatial Information and Geomatics, Guilin 541004, China"}]},{"given":"Dunyong","family":"Zheng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Guangxi Key Laboratory of Spatial Information and Geomatics, Guilin 541004, China"},{"name":"National-Local Joint Engineering Laboratory of Geo-Spatial Information Technology, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan 411201, China"}]},{"given":"Xiangyu","family":"Tian","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Guangxi Key Laboratory of Spatial Information and Geomatics, Guilin 541004, China"},{"name":"Institute of Surveying and Mapping, Information Engineering University, Zhengzhou 450001, China"}]},{"given":"Ling","family":"Huang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Geomatics and Geoinformation, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin 541004, China"},{"name":"Guangxi Key Laboratory of Spatial Information and Geomatics, Guilin 541004, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9349-6265","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Lv","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Geomatics and Geoinformation, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin 541004, China"},{"name":"Guangxi Key Laboratory of Spatial Information and Geomatics, Guilin 541004, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2591-6619","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Chao","family":"Ren","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Geomatics and Geoinformation, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin 541004, China"},{"name":"Guangxi Key Laboratory of Spatial Information and Geomatics, Guilin 541004, China"}]},{"given":"Hongchang","family":"He","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Geomatics and Geoinformation, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin 541004, China"},{"name":"Guangxi Key Laboratory of Spatial Information and Geomatics, Guilin 541004, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,9,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"e2020JA027899","DOI":"10.1029\/2020JA027899","article-title":"Stochastic Evaluation of Pre-Earthquake TEC Enhancements","volume":"125","author":"Ikuta","year":"2020","journal-title":"J. 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