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Evidence for lunar tide effects in Earth's plasmasphere

Zong, Qiugang; Guo, Ruilong; Xiao, Chao +18 more

Tides are universal and affect spatially distributed systems, ranging from planetary to galactic scales. In the Earth-Moon system, effects caused by lunar tides were reported in the Earth's crust, oceans, neutral gas-dominated atmosphere (including the ionosphere) and near-ground geomagnetic field. However, whether a lunar tide effect exists in th…