Solar Flare Forcing on Ionization of Upper Atmosphere. Analysis of Several Major Events of 23rd and 24th Solar Cyclesстатья
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Аннотация:By analyzing the GNSS (Global Navigational Satellite Systems) signals recorded at the IGS (International GNSS Service) network, we compare the effects of ionization of the upper atmosphere by a series of intense X-class solar flares during the 23rd and 24th solar cycles. We develop the methods for estimating the geo-effectiveness of the flare from the GNSS data and suggest using the averaged over all receiving stations at the sunlit side of the Earth reduced to the solar zenith angle rate of change of the ionospheric total electron content during the flare as the characteristic of its geo-effectiveness.