Open AccessClimatology of ionosphericF-region disturbances
Author(s) -
D.N. Fotiadis,
S. S. Kouris,
Vincenzo Romano,
B. Zolesi
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
annals of geophysics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.394
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 2037-416X
pISSN - 1593-5213
DOI - 10.4401/ag-3345
Subject(s) - ionosphere , thermosphere , space weather , storm , meteorology , climatology , environmental science , function (biology) , atmospheric sciences , geology , geophysics , physics , evolutionary biology , biology
After more than 60 years of research, ionospheric disturbances are today a most challenging topic of upper atmospheric
physics. Although the understanding of the thermosphere-ionosphere system has increased, quantitative
predictions of ionospheric perturbations, valid for space weather assessment, are still imprecise. Using a
long foF2 dataset, an analytical climatology of the F-region storms is presented as a function of appropriate variables.
Local phenomena are then detected