Physics
Scientific paper
Dec 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010agufmsa41a1707s&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2010, abstract #SA41A-1707
Physics
[2411] Ionosphere / Electric Fields, [2736] Magnetospheric Physics / Magnetosphere/Ionosphere Interactions, [2784] Magnetospheric Physics / Solar Wind/Magnetosphere Interactions, [7954] Space Weather / Magnetic Storms
Scientific paper
Seasonal dependence of diurnal variation of the main impulse (MI) of geomagnetic sudden commencements (SCs) has been investigated using the long-tern geomagnetic field data with high time resolution of 1 sec within a period from 1996 to 2008 provided from the NSWM [Kikuchi et al., 2008] and CPMN [Yumoto and the CPMN group, 2001] chains and the WDC for Geomagnetism, Kyoto. In the present analysis, we used the geomagnetic field data obtained from the 10 stations. In this study, we defined an SC phenomenon as a rapid increase of the SYM-H value with more than 5 nT and time variation in the SYM-H index. Then, we identified 3163 events of SCs in a period from January 1996 to 2008, which has no Pi 2 signature around 10 minutes at the SC onset. Moreover, the SC amplitude obtained at the above 10 stations has been normalized by that in the SYM-H index with latitude correction in order to minimize the different contribution of the rapid change in solar wind dynamic pressure. As a result, in sub-auroral (ZYK) and middle latitudes (MMB) tends to be larger in summer than in winter in all the magnetic local time. The peak-to-peak amplitude in the daytime sector strongly depends on solar zenith angle. These result imply that ionospheric currents (ICs) and field-aligned currents (FACs) generated during the MI phase of SC are enhanced due to the increase of ionospheric conductivity in summer. This feature suggests that SC current system is the voltage generator. On the other hand, the sesonal variation of SC amplitude in both the low latitude and magnetic equator showed quite a different signature from that in the sub-auroral and middle latitudes. The remarkable feature is that the equatorial enhancement of SC amplitude due to an intensification of the Pedersen currents via the Cowling effect tends to become smaller in summer, compared with that in winter. This tendency suggests that ionospheric conductivity does not depend on only the solar zenith angle. One of the implications of the equatorial seasonal dependence is that the ionospheric conductivity in the low latitude and at the magnetic equator modifies the variation of ionospheric structure around the E-region due to neutral drag of the ionospheric plasma along the magnetic field line via interaction between the meridional neutral wind and ionospheric E-region plasmas. Therefore, in order to verify the existence of the neutral wind and its seasonal dependence, we will need to analyze the thermospheric wind data obtained from the MF and meteor radars provided from the IUGONET database.
Araki Takeo
Hayashi Hirotaka
Ikeda Atsushi
Iugonet Project Team
Kikuchi Tatsuru
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