Physics
Scientific paper
Aug 1994
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994angeo..12..625b&link_type=abstract
Annales Geophysicae (ISSN 0992-7689), vol. 12, no. 7, p. 625-635
Physics
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Antarctic Regions, Convection, Electric Field Strength, Electric Fields, Equinoxes, Geomagnetic Latitude, Magnetic Storms, Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling, Data Correlation, Doppler Effect, Drift Rate, Mathematical Models, Propagation Velocity, Whistlers
Scientific paper
Data from the VLF Doppler experiment at Faraday, Antarctica (65 deg S, 64 deg W) are used to study the penetration of the high-latitude convection electric field to lower latitudes during severely disturbed conditions. Alterations of the electric field at L-values within the range 2.0-2.7 are studied for two cases at equinox (10-12 September 1986 and 1-3 May 1986). The recovery of the electric field is found to be approximately an exponential function of time. Values for the equatorial meridional E x B dirft velocity, inferred from the data, are used as inputs to a model of the plasmasphere and ionosphere. The model and experimental results are used to investigate the post-storm alteration of ionospheric coupling processes. The magnitude of the effect of ionosphere-plasmasphere coupling fluxes on N(sub m)F2 values and the O(+)-H(+) transition height is dependent on the local time of storm commencement, and on the orientation of the electric field. The coupling fluxes appear to have a maximum influence on ionospheric content during the main phase of geomagnetic activity that produces outward motion of plasmaspheric whistler ducts.
Balmforth H. F.
Clilverd Mark A.
Smith Anthony J.
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