Collisional ion cyclotron waves in the auroral ionosphere
Abstract
A nearly field-aligned current-driven ion cyclotron wave traveling obliquely to the earth's magnetic field becomes unstable in the auroral ionosphere owing to dissipative effects. Its relevance with regard to some recent observations of auroral irregularities is discussed.
- Publication:
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Journal of Geophysical Research
- Pub Date:
- December 1976
- DOI:
- 10.1029/JA081i034p06169
- Bibcode:
- 1976JGR....81.6169C
- Keywords:
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- Atmospheric Physics;
- Auroral Zones;
- Ion Cyclotron Radiation;
- Ionic Collisions;
- Ionospheric Currents;
- Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances;
- Collisional Plasmas;
- E Region;
- F Region;
- Geomagnetism;
- Ionospheric Ion Density;
- Traveling Waves;
- Geophysics