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Wave disturbances in the ionosphere during a lasting solar activity minimum

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Using the Kharkov incoherent scatter radar, observations of wave disturbances in electron concentration N in the ionosphere at heights of 120–600 km are conducted. The measurements were carried out in the periods of the spring and fall equinoxes and winter and summer solstices. The height-time dependences of the absolute ΔN and relative ΔN/N amplitudes of wave disturbances, as well as their spectral composition, were analyzed. It is shown that wave disturbances in the ionosphere with periods of 10–180 min were present at almost any time of the day and in all seasons. Their absolute and relative amplitudes varied from 6 × 109 to 6 × 1010 m−3 and from 0.01 to 0.5, respectively. The maximum values of ΔN and ΔN/N were observed at a height of ∼200 km. The passage of the solar terminator changed substantially the wave disturbance parameters.

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Original Russian Text © V.P. Burmaka, L.F. Chernogor, 2012, published in Geomagnetizm i Aeronomiya, 2012, Vol. 52, No. 2, pp. 197–210.

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Burmaka, V.P., Chernogor, L.F. Wave disturbances in the ionosphere during a lasting solar activity minimum. Geomagn. Aeron. 52, 183–196 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S001679321202003X

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