The summer evening anomaly and conjugate effects

Details The summer evening anomaly and conjugate effects The summer evening anomaly and conjugate effects

Jan 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011jgra..11601311b&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 116, Issue A1, CiteID A01311

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Radio Science: Ionospheric Physics (1240, 2400), Ionosphere: Ionosphere/Atmosphere Interactions (0335), Ionosphere: Ionospheric Dynamics, Ionosphere: Midlatitude Ionosphere

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The Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate (COSMIC) GPS occultation data have been analyzed in this study to provide a better understanding of the Weddell Sea Anomaly (WSA) and to place it in the wider context of a general phenomenon that occurs near dusk in summer, which we are calling the summer evening anomaly to better capture its global nature. The terminator and the magnetically conjugate points for the terminator in the other hemisphere have been plotted on top of global maps of COSMIC NmF2 and hmF2 for 2 months either side of the December and June solstices for 2006-2008. These plots show that there are distinct enhancements of NmF2 and increases in hmF2 as soon as the conjugate footprint of the field line on the winter terminator is seen at middle latitudes in the summer hemisphere. This effect is most pronounced where the WSA is formed, but it also occurs across the South Pacific Ocean in the southern summer and across much of the North Atlantic Ocean, Siberia, and Kamchatka during the northern summer. An hmF2 increase occurs between the two terminators even at locations where there is no increase in NmF2. A similar, but reversed, effect occurs in hmF2 near dawn. This behavior appears to be most consistent with upward and poleward ion drifts in the evening, but neutral wind and downward precipitation may make important contributions to this effect.

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