Daily variation of the geomagnetic field in equatorial region and sector boundary passage |
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| Authors: | G K Rangarajan |
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| Institution: | Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, Bombay 400 005, India |
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| Abstract: | The mean daily range in horizontal intensity at low latitudes shows a significant departure on the day of a sector boundary passage in relation to its magnitude on adjacent days with a measure of dependence on phase of the solar activity. It is shown that this arises because of a substantial difference, in the nature of the response to sector boundary passage, between the instantaneous maximum field and minimum field. From the fact that the responses at three stations spanning the latitudes near dip equator to that near the focus of Sq currents are almost identical, it is suggested that the cause of the observed feature is primarily disturbance and is essentially non-ionospheric. Differences in the nature of responses between pre-1957 and post-1957 periods reported earlier in the planetary indices or low latitude disturbance indices are shown to be true for the daily range, maximum and minimum fields at low latitudes. |
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