The role played by thermal feedback in heated Farley-Buneman waves at high latitudes

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 532-546

  St Maurice, J P ^a   Kissack, R S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ionosphere (auroral ionosphere; ionospheric irregularities; plasma waves and instabilities)

Indexed keywords

EID: 5544310654     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00585-000-0532-x     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Dimant, Y. S., and R. N. Sudan, Physical nature of a new crossfield instability in the lower ionosphere, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 2551-2563, 1997.
2. Dimant, Y. S., and R. N. Sudan, Kinetic theory of the Farley-Buneman instability in the E region of the ionosphere, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 14 605-14 623, 1995.
3. i of the velocity of unstable ionospheric two-stream waves, J. Geophys. Res., 94, 15 415-15 420, 1989.
4. Fejer, B. G., J. Providakes, and D. T. Farley, Theory of plasma waves in the auroral E-region, J. Geophys. Res., 89, 7487-7494, 1984.
5. Gurevich, A. V., and A. N. Karashtin, Small-scale thermal diffusion instability in the lower ionosphere, Geomagn. Aeron., 24, 733-738, 1984.
6. Hamza, A. M., and J.-P. St.-Maurice, A turbulent theoretical framework for the study of current-driven E region irregularities at high latitudes: basic derivation and application to gradient-free situations, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 11 587-11 599, 1993.
7. Hirschfelder, J. O., C. F. Curtiss, and R. B. Bird, Molecular theory of gases and liquids, John Wiley, New York, 1954.
8. Kelley, M. C., The earth's ionosphere, Academic Press, 1989.
9. Kissack, R. S., J.-P. St.-Maurice, and D. R. Moorcroft, Electron thermal effects on the Farley-Buneman fluid dispersion relation, Phys. Plasmas, 2, 1032-1055, 1995.
10. Kissack, R. S., J.-P. St.-Maurice, and D. R. Moorcroft, The effect of electron-neutral energy exchange on the fluid Farley-Bunenam instability threshold, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 24 091-24 115, 1997.
11. Nielsen, E., and K. Schlegel, A first comparison of STARE and EISCAT electron drift velocity measurements, J. Geophys. Res., 88, 5745-5750, 1983.
12. Pécseli, H. L., F. Primdahl, and A. Bahnsen, Low-frequency electrostatic turbulence in the polar cap E region, J. Geophys. Res., 94, 5337-5349, 1989.
13. Robinson, T. R., Towards a self-consistent nonlinear theory of radar auroral backscattering, J. Atmos. Terr. Phys. 48, 417-422, 1986.
14. Robinson, T. R., The effects of small scale field aligned irregularities on E region conductivities: implications for electron thermal processes, Adv. Space Sci., 22(9), 1357-1360, 1998.
15. Schunk, R. W., and A. F. Nagy, Electron temperatures in the F region of the ionosphere: theory and observations, Rev. Geophys. Space Phys., 16, 355-399, 1978.
16. Schunk, R. W., Mathematical structure of transport equations for multispecies flows, Rev. Geophys. Space Phys., 15, 429-445, 1977.
17. Shalimov, S., and C. Haldoupis, An electron thermal diffusion instability and type-3 echoes in the auroral E-region plasma, Ann. Geophysicae, 13, 45-55, 1995.
18. Sudan, R. N., Unified theory of type I and type IV irregularities in the equatorial electrojet, J. Geophys. Res., 88, 4853-4860, 1983.
19. St.-Maurice, J.-P., Reply, J. Geophys. Res., 92, 323-327, 1987.
20. St.-Maurice, J.-P., Electron heating by plasma waves in the high latitude E region and related effects: theory, Adv. Space Res., Pergamon Press, 10(6), 239-249, 1990.
21. St.-Maurice, J.-P., W. Kofman, and E. Kluzek, Electron Heating by plasma waves in the high latitude E-region and related effects: observations, Adv. Space Res., Pergamon Press, 10(6), 225-237, 1990.
22. St.-Maurice, J.-P., P. Prikryl, D. W. Danskin, A. M. Hamza, G. J. Sofko, J. A. Koehler, A. Kustov, and J. Chen, On the origin of narrow non-ion-acoustic coherent radar spectra in the high-latitude E region, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 6447-6474, 1994.
23. St.-Maurice, J.-P., C. Cussenot, and W. Kofman, On the usefulness of E region temperatures and lower F region ion temperatures for the extraction of thermospheric paramaters: a case study, Ann. Geophysicae, 17, 1182-1198, 1999.