Physics – Geophysics
Scientific paper
Oct 1994
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994georl..21.2335r&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 21, no. 21, p. 2335-2336
Physics
Geophysics
3
Airglow, Electron Density (Concentration), F Region, Magnetopause, Plasma Density, Polar Caps, Auroral Zones, Convection, Geomagnetism, Geophysics, Noon
Scientific paper
Polar patches are regions within the polar cap where the F-region electron concentration and airglow emission at 630 nm are enhanced above a background level. Anderson et al. (1988) proposed a mechanism for processes responsible for their formation in which the cross polar cap potential rises abruptly for a short time, causing a significant but temporary increase in the size of the convection pattern. Lockwood and Carlson (1992) have developed this idea by considering a more realistic description of the response of the polar cap boundary (and implicity the equatorward edge of the plasma convection pattern) to a short time variation of the merging rate at the magnetopause. These factors are discussed and it is suggested that they are inadequate to explain the formation of polar patches under many circumstances.
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