Prolonged radar observations of an auroral arc

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Mar 1980

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1980jgr....85.1223s&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 85, Mar. 1, 1980, p. 1223-1234.

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Auroral Arcs, Incoherent Scatter Radar, Ionospheric Sounding, Radar Measurement, All Sky Photography, Electric Fields, Field Aligned Currents, Ionospheric Conductivity, Ionospheric Currents, Ionospheric Electron Density, Plasma Diagnostics, Vertical Distribution

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Prolonged radar measurements of the line-of-sight velocities and densities of an auroral arc are presented. Electric fields, conductivities, currents, and heating rates are calculated from these measurements, showing that the measured and calculated parameters remained constant. The northward electric field was very strong and showed a latitudinal profile similar to that frequently observed on satellites; the latitudinal profile of the calculated horizontal currents suggests that the major downward field aligned currents are located in the region equatorward of the arc and the upward currents at the equatorward edge of the arc.

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