Asymmetric distribution of the ionospheric electric potential in the opposite hemispheres as inferred from the SuperDARN observations and FAC-based convection model

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 2324-2335

  Lukianova, R ^a   Hanuise, C ^b   Christiansen, F ^c  

^a ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b LPCE CNRS   (France)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Convection; Field aligned currents; Ionosphere; SuperDARN

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MAPS; OPTICAL PROJECTORS; PLASMA FLOW; SCANNING;

ASYMMETRIC DISTRIBUTIONS; CONVECTION; CONVECTION MODELS; CONVECTION PATTERNS; FIELD-ALIGNED CURRENTS; GLOBAL DISTRIBUTIONS; INPUT PARAMETERS; IONOSPHERIC CONDUCTANCES; IONOSPHERIC ELECTRIC POTENTIALS; MODEL PREDICTIONS; NUMERICAL MODELS; POLAR CAP POTENTIALS; RADAR OBSERVATIONS; SOLAR ZENITH ANGLES; STATISTICAL MAPS; SUPERDARN;

FORECASTING;

EID: 56549096290     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2008.05.015     Document Type: Article

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