Multiscale ground aurora observations
Abstract
Aurora is the most impressive phenomenon that initially motivates people's interest in the study of near-Earth space. Now auroral observations provide unique information about the processes occurring in the magnetosphere-ionosphere plasma: this is the only type of observations that gives detailed two-dimensional spatial distribution with sufficient temporal resolution. Fractal power-law distributions that are typical for aurora indicate the passing transients in near-Earth plasma. Spatio-temporal dynamics of active auroral forms on the night side is showing signs of turbulence and self-organized criticality at huge range of scales. Pulsing auroral forms are usually associated with the wave-particle interaction. The report describes the current state of the ground-based optical observations of aurorae at different scales and methods of analysis of their results.
- Publication:
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40th COSPAR Scientific Assembly
- Pub Date:
- 2014
- Bibcode:
- 2014cosp...40E1624K