Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
Dec 2002
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002agufmsa72b0528m&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2002, abstract #SA72B-0528
Mathematics
Logic
2400 Ionosphere
Scientific paper
We present results from the TIME-GCM-CCM3 thermosphere-ionosphere-lower atmosphere flux-coupled model, and investigate how well the model simulates known F2-layer day/night and seasonal behavior and patterns of day-to-day variability at seven ionosonde stations. Of the many possible contributors to F2-layer variability, the present work includes only the influence of `meteorological' disturbances transmitted from lower levels in the atmosphere, solar and geomagnetic conditions being held at constant levels throughout a model year. In comparison to ionosonde data, TIME-GCM-CCM3 models the peak electron density (NmF2) quite well, except for overemphasizing the daytime summer/winter anomaly in both hemispheres and seriously underestimating night NmF2 in summer. The peak height hmF2 is satisfactorily modelled by day, except that the model does not reproduce its observed semiannual variation. Nighttime values of hmF2 are much too low, thus causing low model values of night NmF2. Comparison of the variations of NmF2 and the neutral [O/N2] ratio supports the idea that both annual and semiannual variations of F2-layer electron density are largely caused by changes of neutral composition, which in turn are driven by the global thermospheric circulation. Finally, we describe and discuss the characteristics of the F2-layer response to the imposed `meteorological' disturbances. The ionospheric response is evaluated as the standard deviations of five ionospheric parameters for each station within 11-day blocks of data. At any one station, the patterns of variability show some coherence between different parameters, such as peak electron density and the neutral atomic/molecular ratio. Coherence between stations is found only between the closest pair, some 2500 km apart, which is presumably being related to the scale size of the `meteorological' disturbances. The F2-layer day-to-day variability appears to be related more to variations in winds than to variations of thermospheric composition.
Mendillo Michael
Rishbeth Henry
Roble Raymond G.
Wroten Joei
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