Plasmapause signatures in the ionosphere and magnetosphere

Details Plasmapause signatures in the ionosphere and magnetosphere Plasmapause signatures in the ionosphere and magnetosphere

Mar 1978

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1978jgr....83.1175f&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 83, Mar. 1, 1978, p. 1175-1182.

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Earth Ionosphere, Earth Magnetosphere, Plasmapause, Signature Analysis, Diurnal Variations, Electron Density Profiles, Isis Satellites, Northern Hemisphere, Satellite Observation, Whistlers

Scientific paper

Isis 2 observations of a variety of topside ionospheric 'signatures' of the plasmapause are compared with simultaneously acquired equatorial electron-density profiles obtained by the whistler technique. The satellite data were acquired at about 1400-km altitude at dusk and dawn in the sunlit Northern Hemisphere summer ionosphere within about 15 deg longitude of the VLF receiver. Results suggest that the dynamics of plasma coupling between the ionosphere and plasmasphere dominate the topside data and obscure the location of the equatorial plasmapause field line. The total density and light-ion troughs begin 2 to 10 deg equatorward of the field line through the equatorial plasmapause and are not clear plasmapause signatures. The invariant latitude of the region of steep spatial gradient in thermal plasma density, the plasmapause, appears to increase with altitude. Thus measurements of its position at different altitudes may give different results. Plasma-sheet electrons, however, are observed on field lines just outside the equatorial plasmapause at both dawn and dusk. Their low-latitude extent at 1400-km altitude can be used as a signature of the equatorial plasmapause position.

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