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Jul 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010jgra..11507310o&link_type=abstract
Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 115, Issue A7, CiteID A07310
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Ionosphere: Ionosphere/Magnetosphere Interactions (2736), Ionosphere: Ionospheric Dynamics, Ionosphere: Topside Ionosphere, Ionosphere: Plasma Temperature And Density, Ionosphere: Particle Acceleration
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The influence of solar activity upon ion upflow in the polar ionosphere was investigated using data obtained by the European Incoherent Scatter (EISCAT) Tromsø UHF radar between 1984 and 2008. In agreement with other work we find that the upward ion flux is generally higher when solar activity is high than when it is low. Ion upflow events and also the upward velocity behave the opposite: they are more frequently seen and higher, respectively, at times of low solar activity. In any year about 30-40% ion upflow is accompanied by ˜500 K higher electron temperature than the background temperature at 400 km altitude. Electron and ion heating in connection with upflow is nearly twice as prevalent during high solar activity as it is at low activity. The acceleration of ions by pressure gradients and ambipolar electric field becomes larger when solar activity is low than when it is high. This variation of the average acceleration is caused by the different shapes of electron density profiles for low and high solar activities. Ions start to flow up at above 450 km altitude when solar activity was high, and lower, at 300-500 km altitude, at low solar activity. It is suggested that the solar activity influences long-term variations of the ion upflow occurrence because it modulates the density of neutral particles, the formation of the F2 density peak, and ion-neutral collision frequencies in the thermosphere and ionosphere.
Buchert Stephan C.
Fujii Ryoichi
Nozawa Satoshi
Ogawa Yasumasa
Sakurai Akihiro
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