Spatial relationship of equatorial plasma bubbles and field-aligned irregularities observed with an all-sky airglow imager and the Equatorial Atmosphere Radar

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Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Airglow And Aurora, Ionosphere: Equatorial Ionosphere, Ionosphere: Ionospheric Disturbances, Ionosphere: Ionospheric Irregularities

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We report, for the first time, simultaneous two-dimensional observations of 630-nm airglow depletions and radar backscatter from field-aligned irregularities (FAI) associated with equatorial plasma bubbles. Spatial distributions of backscatter were obtained by performing east-west scans with the 47-MHz Equatorial Atmosphere Radar (EAR) in West Sumatra, Indonesia. A 630-nm airglow depletion, caused by a plasma bubble, was simultaneously observed with an all-sky airglow imager. Both the airglow depletion and backscatter region appeared as band-like structure elongated in the meridional direction with a zonal width of about 100 km. To compare the spatial structures of backscatter with that of airglow depletion, the backscatter was projected onto a horizontal plane at 250-km altitude. Backscatter was found to occur within the entire airglow-depleted region.

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