On the non-Gaussian nature of ionospheric vorticity

Details On the non-Gaussian nature of ionospheric vorticity On the non-Gaussian nature of ionospheric vorticity

Jun 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010georl..3712103c&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 37, Issue 12, CiteID L12103

Mathematics

Probability

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Nonlinear Geophysics: Probability Distributions, Heavy And Fat-Tailed (3265), Ionosphere: Ionosphere/Magnetosphere Interactions (2736), Ionosphere: Ionospheric Dynamics, Ionosphere: Plasma Convection (2760), Magnetospheric Physics: Field-Aligned Currents And Current Systems (2409)

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We present, for the first time, the probability density function (PDF) of ionospheric vorticity measurements made by the SuperDARN HF radars. We show that the PDF is typically heavy-tailed and best modelled by the q-exponential distribution across most of the ionosphere, except in the dayside region 1 current region where the Weibull distribution provides the best model. We identify these distributions as stationary solutions of a Fokker-Planck equation whose corresponding Langevin equation can be derived from the classic baroclinic and barotropic vorticity equations, respectively.

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