Physics
Scientific paper
Dec 1977
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1977jatp...39.1293b&link_type=abstract
Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics, vol. 39, Nov.-Dec. 1977, p. 1293-1306.
Physics
Atmospheric Heating, F Region, Incoherent Scattering, Neutral Gases, Resistance Heating, Wind Velocity Measurement, Heat Measurement, Heat Transfer, Ionic Collisions, Ohmic Dissipation, Thermosphere
Scientific paper
A technique involving incoherent scatter measurements is applied to the determination of zonal neutral wind speed in the F-region when the thermosphere is sunlit. The technique is based on measurement of the heat transfer between ion and neutral gases through ion neutral collisions, which, at the sunlit F-region peak, approximately equals one-half the input Joule power. The Joule power is in turn related to the relative Hall ion drift speed, the dominant wind component of which is the zonal wind. The method assumes particular upper and lower limits for the neutral temperature, which cannot be found directly from incoherent scatter measurements during Joule heating.
Bates Howard F.
Roberts Tony D.
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