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Nighttime height profiles of the amplitudes of large-scale traveling ionospheric disturbances (LSTIDs) obtained from the data of vertical sounding in Almaty (76°55′ E, 43°15′ N) for the period 2000–2007 are analyzed. The height profiles are plotted using the time variations in electron density N h (t) at a series of heights for the F region in the ionosphere with a height step of 10 km. In total, observations were conducted during 1166 nights, among which 581 nights are characterized by wave activity. Nights with the maximum amplitude of variations in N h (t) exceeding 25% are selected for analysis. The total number of such nights is 63; LSTIDs have been recorded in both magnetically quiet and active periods. The regressive ratios between the height of the F-region maximum and the height that corresponds to the maximum absolute amplitude of a wave, as well as between the values of the maximum amplitude at a height profile and the value of the amplitude of variations in N m F(t) at the layer maximum, are obtained.
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Original Russian Text © A.F. Yakovets, V.V. Vodyannikov, G.I. Gordienko, Yu.G. Litvinov, 2013, published in Geomagnetizm i Aeronomiya, 2013, Vol. 53, No. 5, pp. 698–705.
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Yakovets, A.F., Vodyannikov, V.V., Gordienko, G.I. et al. Height profiles of the amplitudes of large-scale traveling ionospheric disturbances. Geomagn. Aeron. 53, 655–662 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016793213050174
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