F-region Pedersen conductivity deduced using the TIMED/GUVI limb retrievals

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1311-1316

  Kil, H ^a   Demajistre, M ^a   Paxton, L J ^a   Zhang, Y ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOMALY; CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRON DENSITY; EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IONIZATION; IONOSPHERE; SEASONAL VARIATION;

EID: 33751081251     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-24-1311-2006     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Abdu, M. A., Bittencourt, J. A., and Batista, I. S.: Magnetic declination control of the equatorial F-region dynamo electric field development and spread F, J. Geophys. Res., 86, 11 443-11 446, 1981.
2. Abdu, M. A., Batista, I. S., and Sobral, J. H. A.: A new aspect of magnetic declination control of equatorial spread F and F-region dynamo, J. Geophys. Res., 97, 14 897-14 904, 1992.
3. Christensen, A. B., Paxton, L. J., and Avery, S. et al.: Initial Observations with the Global Ultraviolet Imager (GUVI) in the NASA TIMED Satellite Mission, J. Geophys. Res., 108(A12), 1451, doi:10.1029/2003JA009918, 2003.
4. DeMajistre, R., Paxton, L. J., Morrison, D., Yee, J.-H., Goncharenko, L., and Christensen, A.: Retrievals of night-time electron density from TIMED Global Ultraviolet Imager (GUVI) measurements, J. Geophys. Res., 109, A05305, doi:10.1029/2003JA010296, 2004.
5. Haerendel, G., Eccles, J. V., and Cakir, S.: Theory for modeling the equatorial evening ionosphere and the origin of the shear in the horizontal plasma flow, J. Geophys. Res., 97, 1209-1223, 1992.
6. Kelley, M. C.: The Earth's Ionosphere, Academic Press, San Diego, California, 1989.
7. Kil, H. and Heelis, R. A.: Global distribution of density irregularities in the equatorial ionosphere, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 407-417, 1998.
8. Kil, H., DeMajistre, R., and Paxton, L. J.:F-region plasma distribution seen from TIMED/GUVI and its relation to the equatorial spread F activity, Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L05810, doi:10.1029/2003GL018703, 2004a.
9. Kil, H., Su, S.-Y., Paxton, L. J., Wolven, B. C., Zhang, Y., Morrison, D., and Yeh, H. C.: Coincident equatorial bubble detection by TIMED/GUVI and ROCSAT-1, Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L03809, doi:10.1029/2003GL018696, 2004b.
10. Maruyama, T. and Matuura, N.: Longitudinal variability of annual changes in activity of equatorial spread F and plasma bubbles, J. Geophys. Res., 89, 10 903-10 912, 1984.
11. McClure, J. P., Singh, S., Bamgboye, B. K., Johnson, F. S., and Kil, H.: Occurrence of equatorial F region irregularities: Evidence for tropospheric seeding, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 29 119-29 135, 1998.
12. Mendillo, M., Baumgardner, J., Pi, X., and Sultan, P. J.: Onset condition for equatorial spread F, J. Geophys. Res., 97, 13 865-13 876, 1992.
13. Paxton, L. J., Christensen, A. B., Morrison, D., Wolven, B., Kil, H., Zhang, Y., Ogorzalek, B. S., Humm, D. C., Goldsten, J., DeMajistre, R., and Meng, C. -I.: GUVI: A hyperspectral imager for geospace, Proc. SPIE, 5660, 227-240, doi:10.1117/12/579171, 2004.
14. Röttger, J.: Equatorial spread F by electric fields and atmospheric gravity waves generated by thunderstorms, J. Atmos. Terr. Phys., 43, 453-462, 1981.
15. Sultan, P. J.: Linear theory and modeling of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability leading to the occurrence of equatorial spread F., J. Geophys. Res., 101, 26 875-26 891, 1996.
16. Tsunoda, R. T.: Control of the seasonal and longitudinal occurrence of equatorial scintillations by the longitudinal gradient in integrated E region Pedersen conductivity, J. Geophys. Res., 90, 447-456, 1985.