Review of long-term trends in the equatorial ionosphere due the geomagnetic field secular variations and its relevance to space weather

AG Elias, BF de Haro Barbas, BS Zossi, FD Medina… - Atmosphere, 2021 - mdpi.com
The Earth's ionosphere presents long-term trends that have been of interest since a
pioneering study in 1989 suggesting that greenhouse gases increasing due to …

Competition between winds and electric fields in the formation of blanketing sporadic E layers at equatorial regions

LCA Resende, IS Batista, CM Denardini… - Earth, Planets and …, 2016 - Springer
In the present work, we analyze the competition between tidal winds and electric fields in the
formation of blanketing sporadic E layers (Es b) over São Luís, Brazil (2° 31′ S, 44° 16 …

Different Sporadic‐E (Es) Layer Types Development During the August 2018 Geomagnetic Storm: Evidence of Auroral Type (Esa) Over the SAMA Region

J Moro, J Xu, CM Denardini… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Sporadic‐E (Es) layers are investigated over five Digisonde stations located inside (Santa
Maria and Cachoeira Paulista), boundary (São Luís), and outside (Millstone Hill and Port …

Evolution of the geomagnetic daily variation at Tatuoca, Brazil, from 1957 to 2019: A transition from Sq to EEJ

G Soares, Y Yamazaki, I Cnossen… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The magnetic equator in the Brazilian region has moved over 1,100 km northward since
1957, passing the geomagnetic observatory Tatuoca (TTB), in northern Brazil, around 2013 …

The impact of the disturbed electric field in the sporadic E (Es) layer development over Brazilian region

LCA Resende, J Shi, CM Denardini… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
During disturbed periods, E region electric fields can cause anomalous Es layer behavior,
which is observed in the digital ionosonde data. To investigate the influence of these electric …

Equatorial E Region Electric Fields and Sporadic E Layer Responses to the Recovery Phase of the November 2004 Geomagnetic Storm

J Moro, LCA Resende, CM Denardini… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Equatorial E region electric fields (EEFs) inferred from coherent radar data, sporadic‐E (E s)
layers observed from a digital ionosonde data, and modeling results are used to study the …

On the sources of the ionospheric variability in the South American Magnetic Anomaly during solar minimum

J Moro, J Xu, CM Denardini… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
We investigate for the first time the variability of the F2 layer critical frequency (foF2), its peak
height (hmF2), the thickness parameter B0, and the E region critical frequency (foE) over …

New findings of the sporadic E (Es) layer development around the magnetic equator during a high‐speed solar (HSS) wind stream event

LCA Resende, Y Zhu, CM Denardini… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The equatorial (Esq) and blanketing (Esb) sporadic (Es) layers occur due to the Equatorial
Electrojet Current (EEJ) plasma instabilities and tidal wind components, respectively. Both …

Ionospheric scale index map based on TEC data during the Saint Patrick magnetic storm and EPBs

CM Denardini, GAS Picanço, PF Barbosa Neto… - Space …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This study examines the variability of the ionospheric content during the period around the
2015 Saint Patrick magnetic storm and when equatorial plasma bubbles (EPBs) are …

Evaluation of the Solar Quiet Reference Field (SQRF) model for space weather applications in the South America Magnetic Anomaly

SS Chen, CM Denardini, LCA Resende… - Earth, Planets and …, 2021 - Springer
In the present work, we evaluate the accuracy of the Solar Quiet Reference Field (SQRF)
model for estimating and predicting the geomagnetic solar quiet (Sq) daily field variation in …