High-latitude plasma outflow as measured by the DMSP spacecraft

Details High-latitude plasma outflow as measured by the DMSP spacecraft High-latitude plasma outflow as measured by the DMSP spacecraft

Dec 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003jgra..108.1441c&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 108, Issue A12, pp. SIA 10-1, CiteID 1441, DOI 10.1029/2003JA009890

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Ionosphere: Ionosphere/Magnetosphere Interactions (2736), Ionosphere: Ionospheric Dynamics, Ionosphere: Auroral Ionosphere (2704), Ionosphere: Polar Cap Ionosphere, Ionosphere: Topside Ionosphere

Scientific paper

We have examined the vertical ion flux in the topside high-latitude ionosphere from measurements of the vertical ion drift and ion number density made by the DMSP F13 satellite. We found that the average vertical flux over the entire high-latitude region near 800 km altitude is quite small. This suggests that most of the vertical ion flux is associated with a large-scale ``breathing'' of the upper ionosphere. In the polar cap the vertical ion flux is uniformly downward at all locations. However, in the auroral zone the ion flux is highly structured, and a net upward flux is produced only by spatially and temporally confined events containing upward fluxes in excess of 1010 cm-2 s-1 that have no downward counterparts.

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