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Storm-Time Thermospheric Winds Over Peru, Luis A. Navarro Dominguez, B. G. Fejer
Storm-Time Thermospheric Winds Over Peru, Luis A. Navarro Dominguez, B. G. Fejer
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We used Fabry-Perot Interferometer (FPI) observations at Jicamarca, Nasca and Arequipa, Peru from 2011 to 2017 to study the nighttime zonal and meridional disturbance winds over the Peruvian equatorial region. We derived initially the seasonal-dependent average thermospheric winds corresponding to 12 hours of continuous geomagnetically quiet conditions. These quiet-time climatological winds, which are in general agreement with results from the Horizontal Wind Model (HWM14), were then used as baselines for the calculation of the disturbance winds. Our results indicate that the nighttime zonal disturbance winds are westward with peak values near midnight and with magnitudes much larger than predicted by …