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Karpacheva, A.T., Deminovaa,, G.F., Beloff, N., Carozzib,, T.Z., Denisenko, P.F., Karhunend, T.J.T. and Lester, M. (2007) Global pattern of the ionospheric response to large-scale internal gravity waves. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 69 (8). pp. 906-924. ISSN 1364-6826
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The global pattern of the ionospheric response to large-scale acoustic gravity waves (LS AGW) has been constructed on the basis of an analysis of the large data set available during the 22 March 1979, magnetic storm. Ground-based ionospheric measurements and in-situ satellite measurements from Cosmos-900 were used in this study together with the Joule heating distribution in the high-latitude ionosphere specifically taken at the maxima of two substorms. The characteristics of the reconstructed planetary pattern of the LS AGW have been analysed in detail. It has been established that the LS AGW effects in the ionosphere in terms of both universal and local time were determined by the pattern of high-latitude atmospheric heating, and that the wave front of the LS AGW during both substorms covered practically all local times, i.e. all longitudes. In addition, it was established that one of the sources of the LS AGW was the thermospheric heating in the day-side cusp region. The local time dependence of the amplitude of the AGW effect in both maximum height, hmF2, and critical frequency, fOF2, has been reconstructed for the mid-latitude F2 layer. The AGW effects were clearly separated from the electric field effects related to turnings of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) BZ. In the day-time, electric field effects prevailed over the AGW effects, but during the night-time the amplitudes of these two effects were comparable. In contrast to the common view, fOF2 variations after the AGW passage had a quasi-sinusoidal character both in the day-time and in the night-time. In the night-time ionosphere a high degree of symmetry was observed for the AGW effects in Northern and Southern hemispheres. During the day-time a significant asymmetry was observed in the American longitudinal sector which was related largely to the peculiarities of the heating pattern in the high-latitude ionospheres of the Northern and Southern hemispheres. These observations demonstrate the complexity of the response of the ionosphere at all latitudes to heating of the auroral region.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Online version of the article in HTML format available from the official URL link. |
| Keywords: | Ionospheric–magnetospheric coupling; Satellite observations; Travelling ionospheric disturbances |
| Schools and Departments: | School of Engineering and Informatics > Informatics |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QC Physics |
| Depositing User: | Chris Keene |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Jul 2007 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Nov 2012 16:51 |
| URI: | http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/1221 |