Dynamics of three dimensional ionospheric plasma clouds
Abstract
The first self-consistent, three-dimensional analysis of plasma cloud evolution in the ionosphere is presented. It is demonstrated that there is a preferred perpendicular scale size associated with 3D plasma clouds given by rc~c(Te+Ti)/eBzVnΓc, where rc is the cloud radius, Tα is the temperature of the α species, Bz is the ambient magnetic field, and Vn is the neutral wind speed, and Γc<1/ √2 .
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- January 1987
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.58.278
- Bibcode:
- 1987PhRvL..58..278D
- Keywords:
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- Earth Ionosphere;
- Magnetic Fields;
- Plasma Clouds;
- Plasma Dynamics;
- Wind Velocity;
- Equatorial Regions;
- Hall Effect;
- Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability;
- Linear Equations;
- Geophysics;
- 94.20.Vv;
- Ionospheric disturbances irregularities and storms