Thermospheric observations combining chemical seeding and ground-based techniques - II. Ionospheric drifts and the Sq current system
Abstract
Two Skylark sounding rockets carrying chemical seeding payloads were launched from Woomera, South Australia in October 1969. In conjunction with these firings, the F-region drifts were determined with the Buckland Park aerial array and the results compared with the observed motion of the barium ion clouds. The local ionospheric Sq current system was calculated both from the observed ionospheric parameters and from ground-based magnetograms and the differences between the two results are discussed.
- Publication:
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Planetary and Space Science
- Pub Date:
- July 1973
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0032-0633(73)90208-0
- Bibcode:
- 1973P&SS...21.1237R