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The total ionospheric electron content, ECion, an integrated quantity derived from F3C measurements, was used to compare the observational data. The ECion values were derived from accurate radio-occultation-retrieved electron density profiles without assuming spherical symmetry and from a model that separated the ground total electron content into the plasmaspheric and the ionospheric electron content contributions. An analysis of the ECion data set confirmed that MSNAs were present in three different regions of the world for the months surrounding the local summer solstice during both 2007 and 2014. In the southern hemisphere, the so-called Weddell Sea Anomaly showed a maximum increase in ECion, measured as the difference between nighttime and midday values, that was more than three times that in the northern MSNAs. For each individual MSNA, the corresponding maximum increases in electron content were similar between the two years analyzed, so they were not significantly affected by solar activity. Then, linear least-square fit to the frequency\u2013wave number basis functions was used to derive the tidal and planetary wave components contributing to MSNAs. The main component that appears to produce the Weddell Sea Anomaly is D0, followed by SPW1, DW2, and DE1, in this order, which make secondary but still relevant contributions. The presence of MSNAs in the northern hemisphere was clearly supported by the migrating tide SW2 in combination with DE1. SW2 also supported an early morning MSNA being observed in the northern hemisphere. The main tidal and planetary wave signatures producing the MSNAs did not significantly differ between 2007 and 2014.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14051237","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,3]],"date-time":"2022-03-03T20:36:30Z","timestamp":1646339790000},"page":"1237","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Summer Nighttime Anomalies of Ionospheric Electron Content at Midlatitudes: Comparing Years of Low and High Solar Activities Using Observations and Tidal\/Planetary Wave Features"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9874-0554","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yu","family":"Yin","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Group of Astronomy and Geomatics (gAGE), Universitat Polit\u00e8cnica de Catalunya (UPC), Campus Nord, Edif. C3, C. 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