@Article{SouzaBailAbduBati:2000:IoMoLo,
               author = "Souza, Jonas Rodrigues de and Bailey, G. J. and Abdu, 
                         Mangalathayil Ali and Batista, Inez Staciarini",
                title = "Ionospheric modelling at low latitudes over Brazil during summer 
                         solar minimum",
              journal = "Advances in Space Research",
                 year = "2000",
               volume = "25",
               number = "1",
                pages = "133--138",
             keywords = "AERONOMIA, Fortaleza (Estado), regi{\~a}o F, regi{\~o}es 
                         tropicais, modelos, ionosf{\'e}ricos, ver{\~a}o, F region, 
                         tropical regions, ionospheric, summer.",
             abstract = "The F-region critical frequency and peak height (foF2 and hmF2, 
                         respectively), measured simultaneously at Fortaleza (4 degrees S, 
                         38 degrees W, mag. lat. = 3 degrees S)and Cachoeira Paulista (22 
                         degrees S, 45 degrees W, mag, lat. = 15 degrees S)in Brazil, are 
                         compared with values calculated by the Sheffield University 
                         Plasmasphere Ionosphere Model to determine the equatorial ExB 
                         vertical plasma drift and thermospheric meridional wind of the 
                         low-latitude ionosphere. The calculation procedure also allows us 
                         to estimate an additional ionization source, that is required to 
                         account for the observed diurnal variation of foF2 over Cachoeira 
                         Paulista. While the determination of the vertical drift is based 
                         on criteria for matching the calculated and observed F-region peak 
                         heights over the magnetic equator, the meridional winds over the 
                         Brazilian low-latitude region and over its conjugate locations are 
                         calculated by comparisons based on the observed and modelled 
                         values of hmF2 and foF2. The results presented in this paper are 
                         for summer at solar minimum.",
                 issn = "0273-1177",
                label = "9418",
             language = "en",
           targetfile = "1-s2.0-S0273117799009102-main.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "27 abr. 2024"
}