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Midlatitude Pc1 Geomagnetic Pulsations: Results of Observations and Statistical Estimates

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An algorithm is developed for automated detection of the short-period Pc1 geomagnetic pulsations (frequency band f = 0.2–3 Hz) from the continuous time series of digital recording during 1998–2014 at the midlatitude Borok station. A digital catalog with the indication of time intervals of the presence and main morphological characteristics of Pc1 pulsations is created. Based on this catalog, the annual, seasonal, and diurnal dynamics of the midlatitude Pc1 pulsation activity is studied for 1998–2014. It is shown that the annual variation of the Pc1 occurrence has a maximum in 2005, i.e., at the end of the solar cycle decay phase, just as in the previous cycles. It is found that the minimum of the cases of Pc1 occurrence is observed in 2009, i.e., not at the maximum, just was the case in the previous cycles, but during the deep minimum of solar activity, which testifies to the untypical conditions in the magnetosphere during the unusually long minimum of the 23rd cycle. The seasonal variation of the Pc1 occurrence has a summer minimum when the series of Pc1 pulsations occur almost thrice as rarely as in winter. Besides, there are relatively small maxima at equinox. The diurnal behavior of Pc1 pulsations has the maxima in the morning and midnight sectors of the magnetosphere. By the superposed epoch analysis technique it is established that the maximal number of the cases of occurrence of Pc1 pulsations at the Borok observatory is observed on the fourth day after the global geomagnetic disturbances. The statistical distributions of pulsations amplitude and duration are obtained.

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    S. V. Anisimov & N. M. Shikhova

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Original Russian Text © S.V. Anisimov, N.M. Shikhova, N.G. Kleimenova, 2018, published in Fizika Zemli, 2018, No. 5, pp. 27–37.

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Anisimov, S.V., Shikhova, N.M. & Kleimenova, N.G. Midlatitude Pc1 Geomagnetic Pulsations: Results of Observations and Statistical Estimates. Izv., Phys. Solid Earth 54, 688–697 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1069351318050026

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