Impact of CIR Storms on Thermosphere Density Variability during the Solar Minimum of 2008

Details Impact of CIR Storms on Thermosphere Density Variability during the Solar Minimum of 2008 Impact of CIR Storms on Thermosphere Density Variability during the Solar Minimum of 2008

2010-04-26

arxiv.org/abs/1004.4593v1

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Space Physics

Solar Physics, accepted, April 2010, and the final version of this paper will appear in the website of Solar Physics soon.

Scientific paper

10.1007/s11207-010-9563-y

The solar minimum of 2008 was exceptionally quiet, with sunspot numbers at their lowest in 75 years. During this unique solar minimum epoch, however, solar wind high - speed streams emanating from near-equatorial coronal holes occurred frequently and were the primary contributor to the recurrent geomagnetic activity at Earth. These conditions enabled the isolation of forcing by geomagnetic activity on the preconditioned solar minimum state of the upper atmosphere caused by Corotating Interaction Regions (CIRs). Thermosphere density observations around 400 km from the CHAMP satellite are used to study the thermosphere density response to solar wind high - speed streams/CIRs. Superposed epoch results show that thermosphere density responds to high - speed streams globally, and the density at 400 km changes by 75% on average. The relative changes of neutral density are comparable at different latitudes, although its variability is largest at high latitudes. In addition, the response of thermosphere density to high - speed streams is larger at night than in daytime, indicating the preconditioning effect of the thermosphere response to storms. Finally, the thermosphere density variations at the periods of 9 and 13.5 days associated with CIRs are linked to the spatial distribution of low - middle latitude coronal holes on the basis of the EUVI observations from the STEREO.

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