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Lowand Mid-Latitude Ionospheric Electric Fields During The January 1984 Gismos Campaign, Bela G. Fejer, M. C. Kelley, C. Senior, O. De La Beaujardiere, J. A. Holt, C. A. Tepley, R. Burnside, M. A. Abdu, J. H.A. Sobral, R. F. Woodman, Y. Kamide, R. Lepping

Bela G. Fejer

This paper examines in detail the electrical coupling between the high-, middle-, and low-latitude ionospheres during January 17–19, 1984, using interplanetary and high-latitude magnetic field data together with F region plasma drift measurements from the EISCAT, Sondre Stromfjord, Millstone Hill, Saint-Santin, Arecibo, and Jicamarca incoherent scatter radars. We study the penetration of both the zonal and meridional electric field components of high-latitude origin into the low-latitude and the equatorial ionospheres. In the dusk sector, a large perturbation of the zonal equatorial electric field was observed in the absence of similar changes at low and middle latitudes in the same longitudinal …