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Variations in the critical frequency of the F2 layer at 22 ionospheric stations within the period 1990–2010 according to the SPIDR system data are considered. A confirmation of the negative trends in foF2 for seven stations considered by one of the authors earlier on the basis of median data is obtained. It is found that both negative (a decrease in foF2 with time) and positive (growth in foF2 with time) trends of the critical frequency are observed. During the later part of the considered period (after 1997), negative trends dominate. This fact manifests itself, apparently, in an increase in the role of the decrease in the thermospheric neutral temperature in the formation of foF2 trends.
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Original Russian Text © A.D. Danilov, A.V. Konstantinova, 2012, published in Geomagnetizm i Aeronomiya, 2012, Vol. 52, No. 3, pp. 372–377.
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Danilov, A.D., Konstantinova, A.V. Variations in foF2 at the end of the 1990s and the beginning of the 2000s according to the SPIDR system data. Geomagn. Aeron. 52, 350–355 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016793212030048
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