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Variations in the frequency of occurrence of riometer absorption, minimum frequency of reflection of the ionospheric F layer, minimum height, and height of maximum electron density of the ionospheric F layer near the solar minimum have been studied. Application of the superposed epoch technique has detected the Moon phase effect on these ionospheric parameters. This effect was: three events per day in the occurrence of riometer absorption, 0.056 MHz in the minimum frequency of reflection of the F layer, and 2.6 and 6.7 km, in the change of the minimum height of reflection and height of reflection from the region with maximum electron density of the ionospheric F layer, respectively. The lunar tide action changes the ionospheric conductivity and, thus, influences the current systems of the magnetosphere. Through changes of magnetospheric currents, the Moon phase effect is exhibited in the Ap and Dst indices and is 4.3 and 4.25 nT, respectively.
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Original Russian Text © S.N. Samsonov, V.F. Smirnov, D.G. Baishev, A.A. Toropov, N.G. Skryabin, 2007, published in Geomagnetizm i Aeronomiya, 2007, Vol. 47, No. 1, pp. 66–70.
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Samsonov, S.N., Smirnov, V.F., Baishev, D.G. et al. Effect of Moon phases in riometer absorption and in the ionospheric and geomagnetic parameters. Geomagn. Aeron. 47, 62–66 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016793207010094
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