Occurrence of scintillation over Lagos within equatorial anomaly

English Abstract:

This work examines the statistical analysis of occurrence of scintillation index over Lagos Nigeria within the equatorial Anomaly region (6.45⁰N, 3.40⁰E) for the year 2009. The variation of occurrence of scintillation varies with local time, Season, magnetic activity, pre-midnight, post- midnight and day time. The occurrence of scintillation was found to be maximum in equinox month and minimum in December solstice. Different levels of occurrences in some months were found with moderate Scintillation (0.4<S₄≤0.6) being dominant throughout the period examined.