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... VARIABILITY The preceding sections discussed the average patterns of ionospheric electric fields. Substantial deviations from these patterns occur, on a global scale as well as on a localized scale, and with a wide range of time scales.
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... g., Fejer, 1985~. Magnetic storms are predominantly a phenomenon of the solar wind/magnetosphere dynamo, but they affect the ionospheric wind dynamo as well.
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  • electric field
  • magnetic storms
  • magnetic field
  • electric fields
  • auroral oval

  • magnetic variations
  • magnetic fields
  • ionospheric electric
  • solar wind
  • wind dynamo

  • magnetic storm
  • upper atmosphere
  • ionospheric wind
  • magnetic flux
  • magnetic local


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