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Collision Frequency in the Ionosphere and Solar Activity

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IN a recent publication, Belrose and Hewitt1 have produced evidence for a variation in collision frequency with solar activity in the lowest ionosphere (at about 60 km height). In this communication we direct attention to similar results which we have obtained for a somewhat higher altitude (about 110 km).

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  1. Belrose, J. H., and Hewitt, L. W., Nature, 202, 267 (1964).

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BEYNON, W., JONES, E. Collision Frequency in the Ionosphere and Solar Activity. Nature 203, 1159 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/2031159a0

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