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Evidence of an upper ionospheric electric field perturbation correlated with a gamma ray burst

Ubertini, Pietro; Bazzano, Angela; Zannoni, Ugo +68 more

Earth's atmosphere, whose ionization stability plays a fundamental role for the evolution and endurance of life, is exposed to the effect of cosmic explosions producing high energy Gamma-ray-bursts. Being able to abruptly increase the atmospheric ionization, they might deplete stratospheric ozone on a global scale. During the last decades, an aver…