Is the relationship between solar proxies and ionospheric parameters stable?
Abstract
The relationship between ionospheric parameters and solar activity proxies is important for long-term studies as ionospheric climatology or long-term trends, and for modeling. It has been broadly assumed that this relationship is stable with time. Using foF2 and foE of four European stations with long (1976-2014) data series, Juliusruh, Pruhonice, Rome and Slough/Chilton, we show that it is not quite correct assumption. The dependence of yearly average values of ionospheric parameters on solar activity proxies appears to be steeper in 1996-2014 than in 1976-1995 for foF2 and steeper after 2000 for foE. Also the relationships among solar activity proxies seem to change. Yearly values of foF2 and foE are very predominantly controlled by solar activity represented by proxies.
- Publication:
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43rd COSPAR Scientific Assembly. Held 28 January - 4 February
- Pub Date:
- January 2021
- Bibcode:
- 2021cosp...43E.586L