Articles | Volume 35, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-35-39-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-35-39-2017
Regular paper
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04 Jan 2017
Regular paper |  | 04 Jan 2017

Induction effects of geomagnetic disturbances in the geo-electric field variations at low latitudes

Vafi Doumbia, Kouadio Boka, Nguessan Kouassi, Oswald Didier Franck Grodji, Christine Amory-Mazaudier, and Michel Menvielle

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Dst index data WDC for Geomagnetism http://wdc.kugi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/dst_final/index.html

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The electrical inductions within the Earth surface due to geomagnetic field variations were examined. For that purpose the records of the geomagnetic and geo-electric field variations observed in West Africa were used. We have found that the geomagnetic field brisk variations induce non-negligible geo-electric field variations at low latitudes. This result implies a possible intense geomagnetically induced current flow in the vicinity of the equatorial electrojet influence area.