期刊
ANNALES GEOPHYSICAE
卷 26, 期 8, 页码 2203-2216出版社
COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-26-2203-2008
关键词
ionosphere; plasma convection; plasma temperature and density; polar ionosphere
资金
- UK Science and Technology Facilities Council [PP/E001157/1]
- national science councils of China, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, Norway, Sweden and UK
- National Research Programs of Australia, Canada, Finland, Japan, South Africa, Sweden, UK and USA
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [PP/E007929/1] Funding Source: researchfish
Results are presented from two multi-instrument case studies showing patches of cold, long-lived plasma in the winter nightside ionosphere during times when the z-component of the Interplanetary Magnetic Field (IMF Beta(z)) was positive. These enhancements were coincident with the antisunward convective plasma drift, flowing from polar to nightside auroral latitudes. In the first case, on 5 December 2005 with IMF Beta(y) negative, two regions of enhanced electron density were observed extended in MLT in the magnetic midnight sector separated by lower densities near midnight. It is likely that the earlier enhancement originated on the dayside near magnetic noon and was transported to the nightside sector in the convective flow, whilst the later feature originated in the morning magnetic sector. The lower densities separating the two enhancements were a consequence of a pair of lobe cells essentially blocking the direct antisunward cross polar flow from the dayside. A second case study on 4 February 2006 with IMF Beta(y) positive revealed a single nightside enhancement likely to have originated in the morning magnetic sector. These multi-instrument investigations, incorporating observations by the EISCAT radar facility, the SuperDARN network and radio tomography, reveal that plasma flowing from the dayside can play a significant role in the nightside ionosphere under conditions of IMF Beta(z) positive. The observations are reinforced by simulations of flux-tube transport and plasma decay.
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