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14 Jul 2025
Research article |
| 14 Jul 2025
| 14 Jul 2025
Ionospheric chaos in the solar quiet current due to sudden stratospheric warming events across the European and African sectors
Irewola Aaron Oludehinwa
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Physics, Caleb University, Lagos, Nigeria
Department of Physics, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
Andrei Velichko
Institute of Physics and Technology, Petrozavodsk State University, 185910 Petrozavodsk, Russia
Olasunkanmi Isaac Olusola
Department of Physics, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
Olawale Segun Bolaji
Institute of Physics and Technology, Petrozavodsk State University, 185910 Petrozavodsk, Russia
Department of Physics, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
Norbert Marwan
Research Department of Complexity Science, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Member of the Leibniz Association, 14412 Potsdam, Germany
Babalola Olasupo Ogunsua
Key Laboratory for Middle Atmospheric and Global Environment Observation (LAGEO), Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Department of Physics, Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria
Abdullahi Ndzi Njah
Department of Physics, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
Timothy Oluwaseyi Ologun
Department of Physics, Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria
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Short summary
The contributing influence of SSWs (sudden stratospheric warming) on regional ionosphere through chaos theory is examined. We find that ionospheric chaos is more pronounced in the European sector compared to the African sector during an SSW. Evidence of orderliness behavior in regional ionosphere of African sector is observed. Finally, we notice that after the peak phase of an SSW, ionospheric chaos is found to be more pronounced.
The contributing influence of SSWs (sudden stratospheric warming) on regional ionosphere through...
