Antarctic polar cap total electron content observations from Casey Station

Details Antarctic polar cap total electron content observations from Casey Station Antarctic polar cap total electron content observations from Casey Station

Apr 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994jatp...56..659b&link_type=abstract

Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics (ISSN 0021-9169), vol. 56, no. 5, p. 659-666

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Antarctic Regions, Interplanetary Magnetic Fields, Ionospheric Electron Density, Polar Caps, Sunspots, Annual Variations, Atmospheric Models, Atmospheric Sounding, Satellite Sounding, Time Dependence

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In early 1990 a modified JMR-1 satellite receiver system was installed at Casey Station, Antarctica (g.g. 66.28 deg S, 110.54 deg E, -80.4 deg lambda, magnetic midnight 1816 universal time (UT), L = 37.8), in order to monitor the differential phase between the 150 and 400 MHz signals from polar orbiting NNSS satellites. Total electron content (TEC) was calculated using the differential phase and Casey ionosonde foF2 data, and is presented here for near sunspot maximum in August 1990 and exactly one year later. The data are used to investigate long-lived ionization enhancements at invariant latitudes polewards of -80 deg lambda, and the 'polar hole', a region from -70 to -80 deg lambda on the nightside of the polar cap where reduced electron density exists because of the long transport time of plasma from the dayside across the polar cap. A comparison is made between the Casey TEC data and the Utah State University Time Dependent Ionospheric Model (TDIM) which uses as variables the solar index (F10.7), season (summer, winter or equinox), global magnetic index (K(sub p)), Interplanetary Magnetic Field (IMF) B(sub y) direction, and UT Sojka et al. (1991).

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