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Heating of the Upper Atmosphere during Geomagnetic Disturbances

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DURING geomagnetic disturbances the upper atmosphere may be heated1 either by injected charged particles and electrojets2 or by magnetohydrodynamic waves and plasma oscillations3. Early studies of the heating were based on some peculiarities of auroras at large heights2. The detection of the increase of artificial satellite drag during geomagnetic disturbances4–6 led to more widely accepted data on the phenomenon.

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KRASSOVSKY, V. Heating of the Upper Atmosphere during Geomagnetic Disturbances. Nature 217, 1136–1137 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/2171136a0

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