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Results of statistical analysis of the properties of variability of F2-layer maximum parameters (critical frequency foF2 and the height hmF2) in quiet midlatitude ionosphere under low solar activity in the daytime (1000–1500 LT) and nighttime (2200–0300 LT) hours are presented on the basis of Irkutsk station data for 2007–2008. It is found that the distribution density of δfoF2 could be presented as consisting of two distinctly different normal laws of this distribution, one of which corresponds to weak (|δfoF2| < 10%) fluctuations in foF2 and the other corresponds to strong (30% > |δfoF2| > 10%) fluctuations. Weak fluctuations in foF2 to a substantial degree are related to ionospheric variability at times less of than 1–3 h and determine the δfoF2 variability in the daytime hours. Strong fluctuations in foF2 are mainly related to day-to-day variability of the ionosphere at a fixed local time, the variability increasing by approximately a factor of 3 during the transition from day to night and determining the δfoF2 variability in the nighttime hours. The distribution density of ΔhmF2 is close to the normal distribution law. An interpretation of the different character of the distribution densities of δfoF2 and ΔhmF2 is given.
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Original Russian Text © M.G. Deminov, G.F. Deminova, G.A. Zherebtsov, O.M. Pirog, N.M. Polekh, 2011, published in Geomagnetizm i Aeronomiya, 2011, Vol. 51, No. 3, pp. 352–359.
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Deminov, M.G., Deminova, G.F., Zherebtsov, G.A. et al. Variability of parameters of the F2-layer maximum in the quiet midlatitude ionosphere under low solar activity: 1. Statistical properties. Geomagn. Aeron. 51, 348–355 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016793211020058
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