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  • Wiley  (11)
  • Seismological Society of America (SSA)  (2)
  • AAAS Publication  (1)
  • Macmillan (U.K.) and Ballinger (U.S.A.)  (1)
  • Phillips Laboratory Air Force Systems Command  (1)
  • University Science Books  (1)
  • 1
    Publication Date: 2012-05-18
    Description: Solar radiation below ∼100 nm produces photoelectrons, a substantial portion of the F region ionization, most of the E region ionization, and drives chemical reactions in the thermosphere. Unquantified uncertainties in thermospheric models exist because of uncertainties in solar irradiance models used to fill spectral and temporal gaps in solar irradiance observations. We investigate uncertainties in solar energy input to the thermosphere on solar rotation time scales using photoelectron observations from the FAST satellite. We compare observed and modeled photoelectron energy spectra using two photoelectron production codes driven by five different solar irradiance models. We observe about 1.7% of the ionizing solar irradiance power in the escaping photoelectron flux. Most of the code/model pairs used reproduce the average escaping photoelectron flux over a 109-day interval in late 2006. The code/model pairs we used do not completely reproduce the observed spectral and solar rotation variations in photoelectron power density. For the interval examined, 30% of the variability in photoelectron power density with equivalent wavelengths between 18 and 45 nm was not captured in the code/model pairs. For equivalent wavelengths below ∼16 nm, most of the variability was missed. This result implies that thermospheric model runs based on the solar irradiance models we tested systematically underestimate the energy input from ionizing radiation on solar rotation time scales.
    Print ISSN: 0148-0227
    Topics: Geosciences , Physics
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    AAAS Publication
    In:  Bull., Open-File Rept., Science and Security: The Future of Arms Control, Colloquium Proceedings, December 4-5, 1986, San Diego, Calif., AAAS Publication, vol. 78, no. 87-17, pp. 189-218, (ISBN 0080419208)
    Publication Date: 1987
    Keywords: Nuclear explosion
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    University Science Books
    In:  Sausalito, XVIII+700 pp., University Science Books, vol. 1, pp. 559-932, (ISBN 0-935702-96-2)
    Publication Date: 2002
    Keywords: SRICHWALSKI ; Textbook of geophysics ; Seismology ; Elasticity ; Fault plane solution, focal mechanism ; Source ; SModelling ; Spectrum ; Instruments ; Inversion ; Waves ; Surface waves ; (The Earth's free) oscillations ; Reflection seismics ; Inhomogeneity ; Detectors ; Data analysis / ~ processing ; Dynamic ; cracks and fractures (.NE. fracturing) ; Fracture ; Seismometer ; AnisotropyS ; Dispersion ; CMT ; Moment tensor ; FractureT ; self-similarity ; tunneling ; whispering ; galleries ; normal ; Stress ; changes ; during ; rupture
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    Macmillan (U.K.) and Ballinger (U.S.A.)
    In:  Bull., Open-File Rept., Verification and Compliance: A Problem-Solving Approach, San Diego, Calif., Macmillan (U.K.) and Ballinger (U.S.A.), vol. 78, no. 87-17, pp. 73-91, (ISBN 0080419208)
    Publication Date: 1988
    Keywords: Nuclear explosion
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    Phillips Laboratory Air Force Systems Command
    In:  scientific report, Hanscom Air Force Base, Phillips Laboratory Air Force Systems Command, vol. 1034, no. PL-TR-91-2123, pp. 1-109, (ISBN 3-933346-037)
    Publication Date: 1991
    Keywords: Nuclear explosion ; Seismology ; Magnitude ; Source
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  • 6
    Publication Date: 2016-07-08
    Description: This study investigates the causes of nighttime enhancements in ionospheric density that are observed in winter by the incoherent scatter radar at Kharkiv, Ukraine. Calculations with a comprehensive physical model reveal that large downward ion fluxes from the plasmasphere are the main cause of the enhancements. These large fluxes are enabled by large upward H + fluxes into the plasmasphere from the conjugate summer hemisphere during the daytime. The nighttime downward H + flux at Kharkiv is sensitive to the thermosphere model H density, which had to be increased by factors of 2 to 3 to obtain model-data agreement for the topside H + density. Other studies support the need for increasing the thermosphere model H density for all seasons at solar minimum. It was found that neutral winds are less effective than plasmaspheric fluxes for maintaining the nighttime ionosphere. This is partly because increased equatorward winds simultaneously oppose the downward H + flux. The model calculations also reveal the need for a modest additional heat flow from the plasmasphere in the afternoon. This source could be the quiet time ring current.
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    Publication Date: 2015-10-16
    Description: This paper investigates the causes of the sudden descent (midnight collapse) of the ionosphere at Townsville, Australia during the equinox periods of years between 1970 to 1980. The collapse of h m F 2 at midnight is found to occur on 89% of the 330 equinox nights that are investigated, and the mean magnitude of the midnight collapse is 84 km in the March equinox periods and 99 km in the September equinox periods. Observations of h m F 2 are used to determine equivalent meridional neutral winds using a first-principles physics model. Harmonic analysis of these derived winds reveals the existence of significant diurnal (24-hour), semidiurnal (12-hour), and terdiurnal (8-hour) tidal components. The contribution of wind harmonics to the midnight collapse is determined by bandpass filtering the winds to only allow certain tides and then modeling their effect on h m F 2 near midnight. The results indicate that the diurnal, semidiurnal and terdiurnal components of the meridional neutral wind all play a significant role at various times, but the effect of the 6-hour wind component is minimal. The spectral analysis also reveals that the terdiurnal wind component becomes dominant during solar maximum. Electric fields do not appear to be responsible for the midnight h m F 2 collapse because it is seldom seen at the near-conjugate station of Akita, Japan.
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    Publication Date: 2011-04-12
    Description: Using 8 years of CHAMP satellite observations of the equatorial electron temperature, Te, we investigate its behavior during the morning overshoot and at ionospheric altitudes below 450 km including its variation with solar activity. The morning Te has a maximum at the dip equator and decreases gradually with increasing latitude, which is due to the increasing importance of heat conduction as the dip angle becomes larger. The amplitude of the equatorial morning overshoot Te decreases with increasing solar flux by about −10°K/solar flux unit depending on season and longitude. Trends of similar magnitude are predicted by the FLIP model. The model calculations confirm that the electron cooling due to enhanced electron-ion collisions increases faster than the heating of thermal electrons through collision with photoelectrons for increasing solar EUV. Both data and model showed that elevated electron temperatures persist to later local times during low solar activity. Obviously, the decreased background plasma density, together with the slower rise of electron density after sunrise under such conditions are responsible for the longer persistence. First investigations of longitudinal aspects revealed that the strength of the anticorrelation between morning Te and solar flux and the seasonal difference of the Te amplitude varies with longitude. The positive correlation between the morning overshoot and solar flux at 600 km as was shown earlier in Hinotori data is consistent with FLIP predictions and radar observations. The solar flux variation of the morning Te reverses sign between 400 and 600 km.
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  • 9
    Publication Date: 2014-12-07
    Description: This paper investigates unusually deep and sudden electron density depletions (troughs) observed in the Poker Flat (Alaska) Incoherent Scatter Radar (PFISR) data in mid-summer of 2007 and 2008. The troughs were observed in the pre-midnight sector during periods of weak magnetic and solar activity. The density recovered to normal levels around midnight. At the time when the electron density was undergoing its steep decrease, there was usually a surge of the order of 100 to 400°K in the ion temperature that lasted less than one hour. The Ti surges were usually related to similar surges in the AE index, indicating that the high latitude convection pattern was expanding and intensifying at the time of the steep electron density drop. The convection patterns from the Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN) also indicate that the density troughs were associated with the expansion of the convection pattern to Poker Flat. The sudden decreases in the electron density are difficult to explain in summer because the high latitude region remains sunlit for most of the day. This paper suggests that the summer density troughs result from lower latitude plasma that had initially been corotating in darkness for several hours post sunset and brought back toward the sunlit side as the convection pattern expanded. The magnetic declination of ~22 degrees east at 300 km at Poker Flat greatly facilitates the contrast between the plasma convecting from lower latitudes and the plasma that follows the high latitude convection pattern.
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-13
    Description: This paper reexamines the chemistry of N2+, NO+, O2+, and N+ by comparing densities from a photochemical model with data from the Atmosphere Explorer C satellite. These comparisons show that the measurements of N2+, NO+, O2+, and N+ density are well modeled with up-to-date reaction rates, solar EUV irradiances, and photoelectron fluxes. In particular, this study has resolved a long-standing problem wherein the previous investigations overestimated the measured N2+ density by a factor of 2. A new method of determining the important and controversial O+(2D) + N2 reaction rate from the Atmosphere Explorer C data is presented. This reaction rate determination agrees well with the latest laboratory measured reaction rate.
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