Electron heating rates in the E and lower F regions
Abstract
Electron temperatures and electron densities measured on four rocket flights have been used to deduce electron heating rates in the E and lower F regions. Above 150 km heating rates at midday are found to be in good agreement with calculated values. Anomalies are found in heating rates at sunrise which are attributed to a source, such as joule heating, which does not produce ionization.
- Publication:
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Radio Science
- Pub Date:
- March 1975
- DOI:
- 10.1029/RS010i003p00289
- Bibcode:
- 1975RaSc...10..289S
- Keywords:
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- E Region;
- Electron Energy;
- F Region;
- Ionospheric Heating;
- Rocket Sounding;
- Daytime;
- Electron Density Profiles;
- Heat Flux;
- Ionospheric Electron Density;
- Ionospheric Sounding;
- Lower Ionosphere;
- Geophysics