Physics – Space Physics
Scientific paper
Oct 2002
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002jgra..107.1281b&link_type=abstract
Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), Volume 107, Issue A10, pp. SIA 4-1, CiteID 1281, DOI 10.1029/2001JA005076
Physics
Space Physics
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Ionosphere: Midlatitude Ionosphere, Radio Science: Electromagnetic Noise And Interference
Scientific paper
Data of the first half year of operation of a sensitive search coil magnetometer at a remote site in the island of Crete, Greece (35.15°N, 25.20°E), was used to investigate properties of the spectral resonance structure (SRS) of the ionospheric Alfvén resonator (IAR) at L = 1.3. Most of the properties known from earlier reports and a recent paper (A. G. Yahnin et al., Morphology of the spectral resonance structure of the electromagnetic background noise in the range of 0.1-4 Hz at L = 5.2, submitted to Annales Geophysicae, 2002) (hereinafter referred to as paper CP) at mid and high latitude (L = 2.65 and L = 5.2) could be verified as being valid also at L = 1.3, but several new features were also found. In contrast to mid and high latitudes, SRS signatures were detected every night but not at all during daytime. The average frequency difference Δf between two adjacent harmonics is very small (0.2 Hz) and does not exhibit a local time dependence from evening to night hours. The seasonal dependence is very weak though distinct. A large variability of Δf from night to night was found which increases when proceeding from summer to winter. This variability could not be accounted for by standard IAR models employing an International Reference Ionosphere (IRI). Moreover, the modeled Δf values typically exhibited a systematic offset to higher values as compared to observed ones. It is expected that calibration of the IRI model by local foF2 ionosonde measurements will improve the agreement between model and observation, but it cannot explain fully the variability of Δf and the systematic offset. Most likely the standard IAR model itself requires revision to be fully applicable in the low-latitude ionosphere.
Angelopoulos Vassilis
Belyaev Pavel P.
Bosinger Tilmann
Demekhov A. G.
Haldoupis Christos
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