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IT has been established that electrons precipitated from the outer radiation belt produce ionospheric disturbances1–3. Most of these were found to involve decreases in f0F2, suggesting that the fluctuations in precipitated electron flux will produce a spread in f0F2 values about the hourly means. We therefore compared latitudinal and longitudinal variations in precipitated electron flux with similar variations in the root-mean-square deviation of f0F2.
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TORR, M., TORR, D. Precipitated Electrons as a Cause of the Irregular Behaviour of the F2 Region. Nature 217, 45 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/217045a0
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