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Influence of electrostatic field of the tropospheric line of squalls on the nighttime midlatitude ionosphericE-region

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We calculate the penetration of the electric field associated with the tropospheric line of squalls into the ionosphere and its influence on the nighttime midlatitude E-region. We obtained that the electric field can reach 3 mV m−1 at ionospheric heights. The electron density in the upper E-layer, influenced by this field, decreases as low as 3.5 times from the undisturbed level. The horizontal scale of the disturbed ionospheric volume is about 200–270 km.

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Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, lonosphere, and Radiowave Propagation, Troitsk, Russia. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 42, No. 8, pp. 780–783, August 1999.

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Kim, V.P., Hegai, V.V. Influence of electrostatic field of the tropospheric line of squalls on the nighttime midlatitude ionosphericE-region. Radiophys Quantum Electron 42, 687–690 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02676854

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