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Empirical model of variations in 656.3-nm hydrogen emission

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Based on the measurements of 656.3-nm emission of atomic hydrogen, we constructed a model of variations in its intensity, which describes the dependence of diurnal, lunar, seasonal, latitudinal, and long-term variations, during the 11-year cycle of solar activity, cyclic aperiodic variations, and variations after geomagnetic disturbances.

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Original Russian Text © N.N. Shefov, A.I. Semenov, O.T. Yurchenko, 2010, published in Geomagnetizm i Aeronomiya, 2010, Vol. 50, No. 4, pp. 551–560.

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Shefov, N.N., Semenov, A.I. & Yurchenko, O.T. Empirical model of variations in 656.3-nm hydrogen emission. Geomagn. Aeron. 50, 526–535 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016793210040158

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