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2021

3.1 High-latitude F-region plasma irregularities

The first radio instruments used to study the ionosphere in detail were ionosondes. Also known as a “vertical sounder,” an ionosonde provides a vertical plasma density profile of the

Perrya, Gareth; Goodwina, Lindsay;

Published by: Cross-Scale Coupling and Energy Transfer in the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere System      Published on:

YEAR: 2021     DOI:

2014

Investigation of sudden electron density depletions observed in the dusk sector by the Poker Flat, Alaska incoherent scatter radar in summer

This paper investigates unusually deep and sudden electron density depletions (troughs) observed in the Poker Flat (Alaska) Incoherent Scatter Radar data in middle summer of 2007 and 2008. The troughs were observed in the premidnight sector during periods of weak magnetic and solar activity. The density recovered to normal levels around midnight. At the time when the electron density was undergoing its steep decrease, there was usually a surge of the order of 100 to 400 K in the ion temperature that lasted less than 1 h. The Ti surges were usually related to similar surges in the AE index, indicating that the high-latitude convection pattern was expanding and intensifying at the time of the steep electron density drop. The convection patterns from the Super Dual Auroral Radar Network also indicate that the density troughs were associated with the expansion of the convection pattern to Poker Flat. The sudden decreases in the electron density are difficult to explain in summer because the high-latitude region remains sunlit for most of the day. This paper suggests that the summer density troughs result from lower latitude plasma that had initially been corotating in darkness for several hours post sunset and brought back toward the sunlit side as the convection pattern expanded. The magnetic declination of ~22\textdegree east at 300 km at Poker Flat greatly facilitates the contrast between the plasma convecting from lower latitudes and the plasma that follows the high-latitude convection pattern.

Richards, P.; Nicolls, M.; St.-Maurice, J.-P.; Goodwin, L.; Ruohoniemi, J.;

Published by: Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics      Published on: 12/2014

YEAR: 2014     DOI: 10.1002/jgra.v119.1210.1002/2014JA020541

ion temperature; plasma convection; plasma troughs



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