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A SOLAR flare usually causes a simultaneous increase in the electron density of the D- and E-layers of the ionosphere in the daylight hemisphere. It is rare, however, to find any corresponding increase in the F2-layer, and the only previously reported case occurred in 19491 during an important flare which was accompanied by an unusually intense burst of cosmic radiation.
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MINNIS, C., BAZZARD, G. Solar-Flare Effect in the F2-Layer of the Ionosphere. Nature 181, 690–691 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/181690a0
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