Physics
Scientific paper
Oct 2000
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000jastp..62.1339b&link_type=abstract
Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Volume 62, Issue 15, p. 1339-1350.
Physics
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Scientific paper
The interaction between the ionized and neutral components of the upper atmosphere (ion drag, air drag) is not limited to the large-scale motions, but it works also among the small-scale motions. This is demonstrated by neutral density depletions (NDD) revealed by us in the neutral density measurements of great time resolution of the San Marco V satellite. The morphological and statistical investigations indicate that NDDs and plasma bubbles have similar characteristics. On the other hand, according to modelling, depletions of the total neutral density discovered by us below a height of about 350 km (collision-dominated case) in the vicinity of the equator might be really due to equatorial plasma bubbles. The relation of the NDDs to plasma bubbles (ion density depletions) is studied partly by direct comparison and modelling, partly indirectly by the distribution of the occurrence of NDDs according to local solar time, to season, to height and to longitude. All of them are arguing in favour of the plasma bubble origin of the NDDs.
Almar Ivan
Bencze Pal
Illes-Almar Erzsébet
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