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We detected a decrease in the intensity of microwave radiation at the atmospheric ozone line at a frequency of 110836.04 MHz during ionospheric modification by high-power HF radiowaves radiated by the Sura Ionospheric Heating Facility. The obtained experimental data allowed us to hypothesize that this effect was caused by the fact that mesospheric ozone was affected by internal gravity waves generated in the E region of the ionosphere during its high-power HF radiowave heating.
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Original Russian Text © Yu.Yu. Kulilov, V.L. Frolov, G.I. Grigor’ev, V.M. Demkin, G.P. Komrakov, A.A. Krasilnokov, V.G. Ryskin, 2013, published in Geomagnetizm i Aeronomiya, 2013, Vol. 53, No. 1, pp. 102–109.
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Kulilov, Y.Y., Frolov, V.L., Grigor’ev, G.I. et al. Response of mesospheric ozone to the heating of the lower ionosphere by high-power HF radio emission. Geomagn. Aeron. 53, 96–103 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016793213010118
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