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Climatology of intermediate descending layers (or 150 km echoes) over the equatorial and low-latitude regions of Brazil during the deep solar minimum of 2009
Ângela Machado dos Santos
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Aeronomy Division (DIDAE), National Institute for Space Research (INPE) S. J. Campos, SP, Brazil
Inez Staciarini Batista
Aeronomy Division (DIDAE), National Institute for Space Research (INPE) S. J. Campos, SP, Brazil
Mangalathayil Ali Abdu
Aeronomy Division (DIDAE), National Institute for Space Research (INPE) S. J. Campos, SP, Brazil
Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, DCTA, São José
dos Campos, Brazil
José Humberto Andrade Sobral
Aeronomy Division (DIDAE), National Institute for Space Research (INPE) S. J. Campos, SP, Brazil
Jonas Rodrigues de Souza
Aeronomy Division (DIDAE), National Institute for Space Research (INPE) S. J. Campos, SP, Brazil
Christiano Garnett Marques Brum
Arecibo Observatory, University of Central Florida, Arecibo, Puerto
Rico
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Short summary
For the first time, the climatology of intermediate descending layers (~150 km) over Brazilian equatorial and low-latitude regions during the extreme solar minimum period of 2009 was investigated. The results are interesting and innovative. For this analysis we used data of height and top frequency of intermediate layers collected from a digisonde located at São Luis and Cachoreira Paulista.
For the first time, the climatology of intermediate descending layers (~150 km) over Brazilian...
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