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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
Volume 29, Issue 15, Pages -Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL015347
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We report for the first time large-scale equatorial F-region airglow depletions extending to low-midlatitudes in both hemispheres. The observational sites were located at low-midlatitude geomagnetic conjugate points. Clear depletions of 630.0-nm airglow intensity due to equatorial plasma bubbles were simultaneously observed with two all-sky imagers at Sata, Japan (magnetic latitude 24degreesN), and its geomagnetic conjugate point, Darwin, Australia (magnetic latitude 22degreesS), on the night of November 12, 2001. Airglow depletion regions with east-west scale sizes of 40-100 km extend poleward. The maximum apex altitude of the plasma bubbles is about 1,700 km over the geomagnetic equator. The depletions move eastward at about 100 m/s, without changing their structures. The Darwin depletion structures mapped onto the northern hemisphere along the geomagnetic field coincide closely with structures in the Sata images, even for the 40-km structure. These observations indicate that plasma depletions in the equatorial ionosphere elongate along the geomagnetic field lines.
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