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Sep 1989
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1989jgr....9412055n&link_type=abstract
Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 94, Sept. 1, 1989, p. 12055-12060.
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Equatorial Atmosphere, F Region, Ionospheric Currents, Plasma Drift, Vertical Air Currents, Diurnal Variations, Doppler Radar, Electrodynamics, Geomagnetism, Incoherent Scatter Radar, Solar Activity Effects
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HF Doppler observations of vertical plasma drifts in the equatorial F region at Trivandrum (dip: 0.9 deg S), conducted during 1984-1986, are presented. The observations reveal a fairly consistent diurnal variation pattern with the drift velocities directing upward during day and downward during night. The diurnal pattern is dominated by the characteristic prereversal enhancement that exhibits the most striking seasonal, solar, and magnetic activity effects. Under high solar activity, the average peak velocity of the enhancement is found to drop from 40 m/s in equinox to 10 m/s in summer. Likewise, the average equinoctial peak velocity drops almost by a factor of 3 as the solar activity index (S10.7) falls from 125 to 70 units. The peak velocity has a unique magnetic activity dependence; it drops by more than a factor of 2 as the activity changes from quiet to moderate but assumes well above the quiet day value for high activity. The corresponding variations for the other times of the day are nowhere as pronounced as for the period of the prereversal enhancement.
Balan Nanan
Namboothiri S. P.
Rao Balarama P.
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