Abstract
Monthly and yearly averages of the pulsation activity in the mid-latitude station Nagycenk are compared to solar wind velocity and ionospheric-plasmaspheric electron concentration data. It is found that pulsation amplitudes are correlated with solar wind velocities with the exception of some month around December in solar maximum years, when they are significantly lower than computed from the corresponding solar wind velocities. This decrease can be caused either by a cutoff of the magnetospheric shell resonances or by local ionospheric damping. In addition to these effects, pulsations amplitudes slightly depend also on the geomagnetic activity and have a semi-annual activity change with maxima around equinoxes.
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