Winds, wind-shears and plasma densities during the initial phase of a magnetic storm from equatorial latitudes
Abstract
A sodium vapor release experiment was performed at an equatorial rocket launching station during the initial phase of a magnetic storm. The formation of sharp layers of ionization can be explained by the electrodynamical processes associated with wind shears at a location close to the edge of the equatorial electrojet belt. The significance of the change in the neutral composition due to the enhanced neutral temperature and the low turbopause level is explored.
- Publication:
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Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics
- Pub Date:
- March 1989
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0021-9169(89)90099-8
- Bibcode:
- 1989JATP...51..169S
- Keywords:
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- Equatorial Regions;
- Magnetic Storms;
- Plasma Density;
- Wind Profiles;
- Wind Shear;
- Atmospheric Ionization;
- Electron Density (Concentration);
- Fabry-Perot Spectrometers;
- Rocket Sounding;
- Temperature Distribution