Articles | Volume 23, issue 19
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-10823-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-10823-2023
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04 Oct 2023
Research article |  | 04 Oct 2023

Ground-based noontime D-region electron density climatology over northern Norway

Toralf Renkwitz, Mani Sivakandan, Juliana Jaen, and Werner Singer

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The paper focuses on remote sensing of the lowermost part of the ionosphere (D region) between ca. 50 and 90 km altitude, which overlaps widely with the mesosphere. We present a climatology of electron density over northern Norway, covering solar-maximum and solar-minimum conditions (2014–2022). Excluding detected energetic particle precipitation events, we derived a quiet-profile climatology. We also found a spring–fall asymmetry, while a symmetric solar zenith angle dependence was expected.
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