Physics
Scientific paper
Jan 1980
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1980jgr....85..213m&link_type=abstract
Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 85, Jan. 1, 1980, p. 213-216.
Physics
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Electron Energy, Ionospheric Temperature, Solar Activity Effects, Solar Terrestrial Interactions, Heat Flux, Incoherent Scattering, Ionospheric Electron Density
Scientific paper
Electron temperature models for the topside ionosphere, which make use of the protonospheric heat flux (PHF), deduced from the experimental electron temperature profiles, are presented for low as well as medium solar activity conditions. The PHF is found to show inverse correlation with electron concentration N sub e in the topside ionosphere. This relationship between N sub e and the PHF at 400 km is used to obtain the PHF when N sub e is known. The value of the PHF can be used to build the electron temperature profile on the topside ionosphere if T sub e at some lower height is known. The T sub e value at a lower height, say at 300 km, can be obtained from earlier models based upon empirical T sub e-N sub e relationships. The electron temperature obtained from our present models are compared with the measured temperatures and are found to show reasonable agreement.
Mahajan K. K.
Pandey V. K.
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