In situ observations of small plasma processes in the lower E-region at 79°N

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Plasma Instability, Neutral Density Fluctuations

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From 29 June to 7 July 2003, the German-Norwegian ROMA-SVALRAK campaign (ROMA = Rocket borne Observations in the Middle Atmosphere) took place at the SVALRAK rocket range, Ny-Ålesund (79°N). During this campaign three instrumented sounding rockets were launched. During all three flights, rocketborne instruments recorded prominent small scale fluctuations above an altitude of ~90 km indicative of plasma instability processes. In the current paper we discuss these observations of small scale plasma structures in the lower E-region in detail. Finally, we consider strong and high frequency small scale neutral density fluctuations measured during the first rocket flight between altitudes of 90 km up to the apogee of ~106 km. We demonstrate that these fluctuations can not be due to neutral air turbulence and we discuss the possibility that these neutral density fluctuations could have been created by a plasma instability process.

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