The effect of seasonal asymmetry on the filling of plasma tubes
Abstract
An ionosphere-protonosphere model is used to investigate the filling of plasma tubes with allowance for plasma exchange between the hemispheres in the case of seasonal asymmetry between them. A three-step filling process is postulated for H(+) ions. It is found that the filling of plasma tubes by O(+) ions occurs symmetrically in both hemispheres without noticeable spatial inhomogeneities characteristic for H(+) ions.
- Publication:
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Geomagnetism and Aeronomy
- Pub Date:
- June 1983
- Bibcode:
- 1983Ge&Ae..23..490K
- Keywords:
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- Annual Variations;
- Atmospheric Models;
- Ionospheric Ion Density;
- Plasma Diffusion;
- Space Plasmas;
- Asymmetry;
- Hydrogen Ions;
- Ion Motion;
- Oxygen Ions;
- Spatial Distribution