Correlations between neutral meridional winds and ion densities observed on AE-E

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Sep 1980

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1980jgr....85.4653w&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 85, Sept. 1, 1980, p. 4653-4657.

Physics

Explorer 55 Satellite, Ionospheric Ion Density, Neutral Particles, Wind Effects, Ambipolar Diffusion, Correlation, Density Measurement, Magnetic Effects, Transport Properties

Scientific paper

The southward directed neutral meridional wind and the nighttime ion density simultaneously measured on AE-E for altitudes from 250 to 290 km are compared and found to correlate when the magnetic field inclination is negative and anticorrelate when the inclination is positive. This effect is attributed to neutral winds transporting the ions up or down a field line depending upon the sign of the field-aligned wind and the inclination. Model calculations for the ion density in the presence of a field-aligned wind and ambipolar diffusion are presented. Six examples of this ionospheric response are analyzed and found to be in qualitative and approximate quantitative agreement with the theoretical results.

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