Middle atmospheric electrodynamic modification by particle precipitation at the South Atlantic magnetic anomaly

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Apr 1987

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987jatp...49..377g&link_type=abstract

Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics (ISSN 0021-9169), vol. 49, April 1987, p. 377-383.

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Atlantic Ocean, Atmospheric Electricity, Magnetic Anomalies, Middle Atmosphere, Particle Precipitation, Atmospheric Ionization, Atmospheric Models, Atmospheric Radiation, Electrodynamics, Geomagnetism

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Evidence for a localized middle atmospheric electrodynamic modification at low latitudes (southern Brazilian coast) of the South Atlantic Magnetic Anomaly (SAMA), in association with enhanced geomagnetic activity, are presented in a unified way combining recent observational efforts and related numerical studies. They involve a distortion effect in the fair weather electric field at balloon altitudes. This effect is attributed to a local intensification of energetic electron precipitation through a related middle atmospheric ionization enhancement and is elucidated by numeric simulation. From the electric field measurements and the numeric simulation, the intensification of precipitation is considered to occur in fairly narrow regions at the observed low L values (around L = 1.13) of the SAMA, with horizontal extensions of the order of a few hundred kilometers. A physical mechanism that could be responsible for this sort of intensification is suggested. Furthermore, a comparison of the phenomenon of middle atmospheric electrodynamic modification at the SAMA with a similar one at auroral latitudes, in response to enhanced solar and geomagnetic activity, is also given.

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