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In this paper, we use the state-of-the-art hybrid neural network combined with a quantile mechanism to predict foF2 parameter variations under low and high solar activity years (solar cycle-24) and space weather events. The hybrid neural network is composed of a convolutional neural network (CNN) and bidirectional long short-term memory (BiLSTM), in which CNN and BiLSTM networks extracted spatial and temporal features of ionospheric variation, respectively. The proposed method was trained and tested on 5 years (2009\u20132014) of ionospheric foF2 observation data from Advanced Digital Ionosonde located in Brisbane, Australia (27\u00b053\u2032S, 152\u00b092\u2032E). It is evident from the results that the proposed model performs better than International Reference Ionosphere 2016 (IRI-2016), long short-term memory (LSTM), and BiLSTM ionospheric prediction models. The proposed model extensively captured the variation in ionospheric foF2 feature, and better predicted it under two significant space weather events (29 September 2011 and 22 July 2012).<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14215418","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,10,30]],"date-time":"2022-10-30T09:01:42Z","timestamp":1667120502000},"page":"5418","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":13,"title":["Modeling and Forecasting Ionospheric foF2 Variation in the Low Latitude Region during Low and High Solar Activity Years"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8154-5963","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Cheng","family":"Bi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Telecommunication Engineering, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Peng","family":"Ren","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Telecommunication Engineering, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0233-2423","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ting","family":"Yin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Beijing Electronic Science & Technology Institute, Beijing 100070, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Zheng","family":"Xiang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Telecommunication Engineering, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yang","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Telecommunication Engineering, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,10,28]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1901","DOI":"10.1016\/j.asr.2004.08.004","article-title":"Variability of foF2 in the equatorial ionosphere","volume":"34","author":"Bilitza","year":"2004","journal-title":"Adv. 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