High-latitude ion convection in the nighttime F region

Details High-latitude ion convection in the nighttime F region High-latitude ion convection in the nighttime F region

May 1980

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1980jgr....85.1995h&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 85, May 1, 1980, p. 1995-2002.

Physics

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F Region, Ion Currents, Ionospheric Currents, Night Sky, Polar Regions, Satellite Observation, Convective Flow, Equipotentials, Explorer 51 Satellite, Rotating Fluids, Shear Flow

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A large data base of Atmosphere Explorer C measurements of the bulk ion velocity vector in the high-latitude F region has been examined. The concept of shear and rotational flow reversals is expanded upon to determine the extent to which the boundary between antisunward and sunward convection (i.e., a polar cap boundary) is an electrostatic equipotential. A most important factor in characterizing the nature of the large-scale geometrical configuration of the nighttime F region convection is the location and extent of quasi-equipotential regions of the convection reversal boundary.

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