An investigation of the northern hemisphere midlatitude nighttime plasma density enhancements and their relations to the midlatitude nighttime trough during summer

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Aug 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009jgra..11408308h&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 114, Issue A8, CiteID A08308

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Ionosphere: Ionization Processes (7823), Ionosphere: Ionospheric Dynamics, Ionosphere: Midlatitude Ionosphere, Ionosphere: Plasma Temperature And Density, Ionosphere: Topside Ionosphere

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This study has utilized regional surface maps and field-aligned latitudinal profiles derived from multiinstrument DMSP-F15 data. It investigates northern midlatitude plasma enhancements in the nighttime topside ionosphere during summer and their relation to the midlatitude heavy ion stagnation trough. The tracked midlatitude summer enhancements showed significant longitudinal variations. Their best development occurred in the 50°N-60°N/110°E-170°E (geographic) region. Proven by Coupled Thermosphere-Ionosphere Plasmasphere wind velocity simulations, equatorward winds were strongest there. This region is the northern hemisphere equivalent of the Weddell Sea Anomaly's (WSA) locality. There, northern summer plasma enhancements resembled the nighttime WSA, a southern summer equinoctial phenomenon, and thus were named as WSA-like feature. Their plasma density increased mainly owing to the mechanical or direct effects of the equatorward winds. However, as results show, the WSA-like feature was an ordinary northern midlatitude nighttime enhancement occurring in summer. This was further confirmed by the WSA-like feature's relation to the trough and by the trough's movement. Over the northern hemisphere, the summer trough appeared at (62.461 ± 2.93)°N (geomagnetic), poleward of the WSA-like feature and other midlatitude plasma enhancements, and moved equatorward with a rate of (0.097 ± 0.04)°N/nT when magnetic activity increased. As our previous WSA investigation indicates, the southern summer trough develops at lower latitudes, at (47.1564 ± 2.16)°S, equatorward of the nighttime WSA and moves poleward with a rate of (0.0497 ± 0.003)°S/nT with increasing magnetic activity under the combined influence of the nighttime WSA and South Atlantic Magnetic Anomaly.

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