Plasma structuring by the gradient drift instability at high latitudes and comparison with velocity shear driven processes

Details Plasma structuring by the gradient drift instability at high latitudes and comparison with velocity shear driven processes Plasma structuring by the gradient drift instability at high latitudes and comparison with velocity shear driven processes

Jun 1990

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1990jgr....95.7799b&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 95, June 1, 1990, p. 7799-7818.

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Ionospheric Disturbances, Magnetohydrodynamic Stability, Plasma Density, Plasma Drift, Polar Caps, Space Plasmas, Dynamics Explorer 2 Satellite, Electric Fields, Geomagnetism

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Using results of the in situ measurements made by the DE 2 satellite, the nature of plasma structuring at high latitudes, caused by the gradient drift instability process, is described. Using noon-midnight and dawn-dusk orbits of the DE 2 satellite, it was possible to examine the simultaneous density and electric field spectra of convecting large-scale plasma density enhancements in the polar cap known as 'patches', in directions parallel and perpendicular to their antisunward convection. The results provide evidence for the existence of at least two generic classes of instabilities operating in the high-latitude ionosphere: one driven by large-scale density gradients in a homogeneous convection field with respect to the neutrals, and the other driven by the structured convection field itself in an ambient ionosphere where density fluctuations are ubiquitous.

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