Articles | Volume 40, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-40-191-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-40-191-2022
Regular paper
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28 Mar 2022
Regular paper |  | 28 Mar 2022

A multi-instrumental and modeling analysis of the ionospheric responses to the solar eclipse on 14 December 2020 over the Brazilian region

Laysa C. A. Resende, Yajun Zhu, Clezio M. Denardini, Sony S. Chen, Ronan A. J. Chagas, Lígia A. Da Silva, Carolina S. Carmo, Juliano Moro, Diego Barros, Paulo A. B. Nogueira, José P. Marchezi, Giorgio A. S. Picanço, Paulo Jauer, Régia P. Silva, Douglas Silva, José A. Carrasco, Chi Wang, and Zhengkuan Liu

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The advanced Composition Explorer (http://www.srl.caltech.edu/ACE/ASC/DATA/browse-data/) E. Stone, A. Frandsen, R. Mewaldt, E. R. Christian, D. Margolies, J. F. Ormes, and F. Snow https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005082526237

Review on space weather in Latin America. 2. The research networks ready for space weather (http://www2.inpe.br/climaespacial/portal/en/) C. M. Denardini, S. Dasso, and J. A. Gonzalez-Esparza https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2016.03.013

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Short summary
This study showed the ionospheric response over low-latitude regions in Brazil predicted by Martínez-Ledesma et al. (2020) for the solar eclipse event on 14 December 2020. We used a multi-instrumental and modeling analysis to observe the modifications in the E and F regions and the Es layers over Campo Grande and Cachoeira Paulista. The results showed that solar eclipses can cause significant ionosphere modifications even though they only partially reach the Brazilian low-latitude regions.