Observations of high latitude ionospheric conductances

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Oct 1993

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Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics (ISSN 0021-9169), vol. 55, no. 11-12, p. 1493-1512.

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Auroral Zones, Ionospheric Conductivity, Ionospheric Sounding, Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling, Polar Regions, Atmospheric Models, Incoherent Scatter Radar, Ionospheric Electron Density, Magnetic Disturbances, Satellite Imagery

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A brief historical review of the development of models of the ionospheric conductivities with special emphasis on high latitude regions and the auroral zone is presented. It is with great admiration that we must conclude that the physical understanding of the importance of the ionospheric conductances was well perceived by pioneers like Schuster and Birkeland a hundred years ago. Progress in the basic theoretical fundamentals was achieved in the late 1920s and 1930s. Realistic estimates were not derived until the first rocket probes measured the electron and ion content at different altitudes in the 1950s. Today we have a superior technique in resolving electron density profiles of high time and height resolution by incoherent scatter radars on the ground. The challenge that we are facing is to obtain global conductivity maps, especially at high latitudes, with a time and spatial resolution which match the details in auroral substorm phenomena. If that can be achieved, great progress in the understanding of detailed dynamical coupling in the ionosphere, magnetosphere, and thermosphere systems is expected. The imaging technique as demonstrated by the DE-satellite can be the tool which eventually materializes our desires for increased knowledge.

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