Whistler propagation in a distorted quiettime model magnetosphere
Abstract
The time delay versus frequency of ground received whistlers provides valuable information on electron density and convection patterns throughout the magnetosphere. In the past the magnetospheric environment has most often been modeled by using a dipole magnetic field and field line plasma density models with constant ion-electron temperatures. This research compared whistler analyses based on the traditional models with analyses based on, (1) a hybrid quiettime magnetospheric magnetic field model that combines an internal field model with a model of the average quiettime contributions to the internal field of the ring, tail, and magnetopause current systems, and (2) a model of the plasma density along field lines that includes significant plasma temperature gradients.
- Publication:
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Ph.D. Thesis
- Pub Date:
- August 1977
- Bibcode:
- 1977PhDT.......124S
- Keywords:
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- Atmospheric Models;
- Earth Magnetosphere;
- Electromagnetic Fields;
- Whistlers;
- Atmospheric Density;
- Ionospheric Noise;
- Magnetopause;
- Plasma Density;
- Communications and Radar