Vertical structure of the midlatitude winter F region of the ionosphere during postmidnight enhancements in NmF2

Details Vertical structure of the midlatitude winter F region of the ionosphere during postmidnight enhancements in NmF2 Vertical structure of the midlatitude winter F region of the ionosphere during postmidnight enhancements in NmF2

Aug 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009ge%26ae..49..490y&link_type=abstract

Geomagnetism and Aeronomy, Volume 49, Issue 4, pp.490-496

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94.20.Dj, 94.20.Dm, F Region, Mid-Latitude Ionosphere

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The behavior of the vertical structure of the ionospheric F2 layer, including the variations in the heights of the maximum and bottom of the layer, its half-thickness, and electron content at some fixed heights during postmidnight enhancements in the electron density at the F2 layer maximum ( NmF2), has been studied based on the data of the ionospheric vertical sounding, conducted in Alma-Ata (76°55' E, 43°15' N) in 2005-2006. The analysis of the amplitude and phase relationships between the measured parameters of the layer made it possible to qualitatively complete the existing concepts of the mechanisms by which the discussed effect is maintained. It is shown that the accelerated decrease in the electron density of the layer within a short time interval preceding the beginning of the postmidnight increase in NmF2 is governed not only by recombination processes but also by the plasma redistribution over the increasing thickness of the layer. The regularly observed effect of the delay in the moment of reversal in the motion direction of the layer bottom relative to the corresponding moment for the layer maximum made it possible to conclude that the meridional wind asynchronously reverses its direction from the poleward daytime to the equatorward nighttime in the entire layer: the direction changes later with decreasing height.

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