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https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-40-503-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-40-503-2022
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20 Jul 2022
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Study of the equatorial and low-latitude total electron content response to plasma bubbles during solar cycle 24–25 over the Brazilian region using a Disturbance Ionosphere indeX

Giorgio Arlan Silva Picanço, Clezio Marcos Denardini, Paulo Alexandre Bronzato Nogueira, Laysa Cristina Araujo Resende, Carolina Sousa Carmo, Sony Su Chen, Paulo França Barbosa-Neto, and Esmeralda Romero-Hernandez

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In this work, we use the Disturbance Ionosphere indeX (DIX) to study equatorial plasma bubble (EPB) events over the Brazilian equatorial and low latitudes. Our results showed that the DIX detected EPB disturbances in terms of their intensity and occurrence times. Therefore, these responses agreed with the ionosphere behavior before, during, and after the studied EPBs. Finally, these disturbances tended to be higher (lower) in high (low) solar activity.
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