A case study of storm commencement and recovery plasmaspheric electric fields near L = 2.5 at equinox

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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

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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.

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