New evidence of a meridional current system in the equatorial ionosphere

Details New evidence of a meridional current system in the equatorial ionosphere New evidence of a meridional current system in the equatorial ionosphere

Apr 1982

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1982georl...9..337m&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 9, Apr. 1982, p. 337-340.

Physics

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Equatorial Electrojet, Geomagnetism, Ionospheric Currents, Meridional Flow, Latitude, Magnetic Anomalies, Magsat Satellites

Scientific paper

An analysis of middle- and low-latitude Magsat data has revealed a change in the D-component having as its most prominent features appearance on the duskside, but not on the dawnside, and on both sides of the dip equator, every day and on every orbit irrespective of geomagnetic activity. The change is antisymmetric about the dip equator, and its amplitude, which ranges from 5 to 25 nT, depends on geographic longitude in such a way that it is large in the South American and small in the Indian zone. The phenomenon can be explained by a meridional current system in the equatorial ionosphere which is produced in association with the equatorial electrojet current. It is recommended that this effect be taken into account in Magsat data studies of geomagnetic anomalies having internal origins.

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