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Radar Studies Of Mid-Latitude Ionospheric Plasma Drifts, L. Scherliess, Bela G. Fejer, J. Holt, L. Goncharenko, C. Armory-Mazaudier, M. J. Buonsanto
Radar Studies Of Mid-Latitude Ionospheric Plasma Drifts, L. Scherliess, Bela G. Fejer, J. Holt, L. Goncharenko, C. Armory-Mazaudier, M. J. Buonsanto
Bela G. Fejer
We use incoherent scatter radar measurements from Millstone Hill and Saint Santin to study the midlatitude F region electrodynamic plasma drifts during geomagnetically quiet and active periods. We present initially a local time, season, and solar flux dependent analytical model of the quiet time zonal and meridional E × B drifts over these stations. We discuss, for the first time, the Saint Santin drift patterns during solar maximum. We have used these quiet time models to extract the geomagnetic perturbation drifts which were modeled as a function of the time history of the auroral electrojet indices. Our results illustrate the …
Seasonal And Magnetic Activity Variations Of Ionospheric Electric Fields Above The Southernmid-Latitude Station, Bundoora, Australia, M. L. Parkinson, R. Polglase, Bela G. Fejer, L. Scherliess, P. L. Dyson, S. M. Ujmaia
Seasonal And Magnetic Activity Variations Of Ionospheric Electric Fields Above The Southernmid-Latitude Station, Bundoora, Australia, M. L. Parkinson, R. Polglase, Bela G. Fejer, L. Scherliess, P. L. Dyson, S. M. Ujmaia
Bela G. Fejer
We investigate the seasonal, local solar time, and geomagnetic activity variations of the average Doppler velocity measured by an HF digital ionosonde deployed at Bundoora, Australia. The Doppler velocities were heavily averaged to suppress the short-term effects (<3>hours) of atmospheric gravity waves, and thereby obtain the diurnal variations attributed to the tidally-driven ionospheric dynamo and electric fields generated by magnetic disturbances. The observed seasonal variations in Doppler velocity were probably controlled by variations in the lower thermospheric winds and ionospheric conductivity above Bundoora and in the magnetically conjugate location. The diurnal variations of the meridional (fieldperpendicular) drifts and their …