Physics
Scientific paper
May 2004
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004georl..3109811k&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 31, Issue 9, CiteID L09811
Physics
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Ionosphere: Midlatitude Ionosphere, Ionosphere: Ionospheric Irregularities, Ionosphere: Ionospheric Dynamics, Ionosphere: Ionosphere/Magnetosphere Interactions (2736), Ionosphere: Plasma Waves And Instabilities
Scientific paper
We develop a model for small scale structure in the midlatitude sub-auroral polarization stream (SAPS)-driven density trough ionosphere during a magnetic storm. We include the effects of ring current precipitation, parallel currents, rapid subauroral ion drifts, storm-induced neutral winds, ion temperature and density gradients. We find that ionospheric density, electric field, ion and electron temperature irregularities can be driven in the stormtime SAPS-driven density trough (1) wall region from the ion temperature gradient convective instability, which is driven by density and ion temperature gradients, in concert with the gradient-drift instability and (2) central region from an ion frictional heating instability which is driven by strong ion convection.
Basu Santimay
Basu Sarbani
Keskinen Michael J.
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