The Condor equatorial electrojet campaign - Radar results

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Dec 1987

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987jgr....9213561k&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 92, Dec. 1, 1987, p. 13561-13577.

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Condor Missile, Density Distribution, Drift Rate, Equatorial Electrojet, Plasma Turbulence, Turbulent Boundary Layer, Low Frequencies, Very High Frequencies

Scientific paper

The results of two Condor equatorial electrojet experiments (i.e., a daytime and a nighttime experiments on March 12, 1983), in which Condor rocked turbulence measurements were obtained simultaneously with VHF radar interferometer and HF radar backscatter observations, are discussed. The daytime Condor experiment showed that the electrojet could be made turbulent by either the gradient drift or the two-stream instability, or both. Pure two-stream turbulence was observed on the topside layer in the daytime electrojet suggesting that mode coupling processes should be included in nonlinear saturation theories of two-stream waves. In the nighttime experiment, radar data showed a bifurcated layer with the two parts having comparable echo strength but oppositely directed zonal drift velocities. The lower layer showed narrow backscatter spectra, while the upper layer was characterized by kilometer scale waves and vertically propagating type one waves. The characteristics of the topside large-scale waves were consistent with the predictions of nonlocal gradient drift instability theories.

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