Observations of large parallel electric fields in the auroral ionosphere
Abstract
Rocket borne measurements employing a double probe technique were used to gather evidence for the existence of electric fields in the auroral ionosphere having components parallel to the magnetic field direction. An analysis of possible experimental errors leads to the conclusion that no known uncertainties can account for the roughly 10 mV/m parallel electric fields that are observed.
- Publication:
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Annales de Geophysique
- Pub Date:
- June 1976
- Bibcode:
- 1976AnG....32...97M
- Keywords:
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- Auroral Zones;
- Electric Fields;
- Error Analysis;
- Ionospheric Currents;
- Magnetic Field Configurations;
- Barium Ion Clouds;
- Current Density;
- Data Acquisition;
- Ionospheric Sounding;
- Rocket Sounding;
- Rocket-Borne Instruments