The features and a possible mechanism of semiannual variation in the peak electron density of the low latitude F2 layer

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Jan 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003jastp..65...47m&link_type=abstract

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Volume 65, Issue 1, p. 47-57.

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Ionospheric data observed in 30 stations located in 3 longitude sectors (East Asia/Australia Sector, Europe/Africa Sector and America/East Pacific Ocean Sector) during 1974-1986 are used to analyse the characteristics of semiannual variation in the peak electron density of F2 layer (/NmF2). The results indicate that the semiannual variation of /NmF2 mainly presents in daytime. In nighttime, except in the region of geomagnetic equator between the two crests of ionospheric equatorial anomaly, /NmF2 has no obvious semiannual variation. In the high latitude region, only in solar maxima years and in daytime, there are obvious semiannual variations of /NmF2. The amplitude distribution of the semiannual variation of daytime /NmF2 with latitude has a ``double-humped structure'', which is very similar to the ionospheric equatorial anomaly. There is asymmetry between the Southern and the Northern Hemispheres of the profile of the amplitude of semiannual variation of /NmF2 and longitudinal difference. A new possible mechanism of semiannual variation of /NmF2 is put forward in this paper. The semiannual variation of the diurnal tide in the lower thermosphere induces the semiannual variation of the amplitude of the equatorial electrojet. This causes the semiannual variation of the amplitude of ionospheric equatorial anomaly through fountain effect. This process induces the semiannual variation of the low latitude /NmF2.

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