Anomalous ion layers in the high-latitude winter E region

Details Anomalous ion layers in the high-latitude winter E region Anomalous ion layers in the high-latitude winter E region

Jul 1991

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1991georl..18.1189k&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 18, July 1991, p. 1189-1192. NFR-supported research.

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E Region, Energetic Particles, Ion Temperature, Ionospheric Electron Density, Metal Ions, Particle Precipitation, Eiscat Radar System (Europe), Extreme Ultraviolet Radiation, Nitric Oxide, Solar Cycles, Winter, X Rays

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The characteristics of an anomalous ionization layer appearing during winter daytime at 69.6 deg N, 19.2 deg E are described. The layer is located at about 100 km altitude, is about 15 km thick and appears not to result from energetic particle precipitation. It has been observed on 80 percent of winter days when measurements have been made and was usually present for several hours on each of those days, whenever the solar zenith angle was less than 93 percent. The layer cannot be explained by ionization of the major atmospheric constituents by solar EUV or X-ray radiation. Possible explanations in terms of the minor constituents NO and metallic atoms are considered but much larger number densities of those constituents would be required than have been observed.

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