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    Satellite observations of zonal electric fields near sunrise in the equatorial ionosphere (1995)
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-24
    Description: We report here on a number of examples of anomalous enhancements of eastward electric fields near sunrise in the equatorial ionospheric F-region. These examples were selected from the data base of the equatorial satellite, San Marco D (1988), which measured ionospheric electric fields during a period of solar minimum. The eastward electric fields reported correspond to vertical plasma drifts. The examples studied here are similar in signature and polarity to the pre-reversal electric field enhancements seen near sunset from ground-based radar systems. The morphology of these sunrise events, which are observed on about 14% of the morning-side satellite passes, are studied as a function of local zonal velocity, magnetic activity, geographic longitude and altitude. The nine events studied occur at locations where the zonal plasma flow is generally measured to be eastward, but reducing as a function of local time and at satellite longitudes where the magnetic declination has the opposite polarity as the declination of the sunrise terminator.
    Keywords: GEOPHYSICS
    Type: Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics (ISSN 0021-9169); 57; 1; p. 19-24
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    Electron density distribution in the magnetosphere (1997)
    In:  CASI
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    Publication Date: 2004-12-03
    Description: Eight months of differential potential measurements from the POLAR satellite were used to study the electron density distribution in the magnetosphere and its dependence on the level of geomagnetic activity identified by the Kp index. The differential potential measurement is directly proportional to the electron density, and this technique can be used for detecting fast electron density variation in low-density plasmas with a good accuracy. The inner magnetospheric regions are particularly investigated in this study. The cusp is found to be denser during low Km, and it moves equator-ward with increasing Km. The plasmapause is quite asymmetric, as expected. In particular, on the nightside, the plasmapause is compressed closer to the earth with increasing Kp. While the density gradients at the dayside plasmapause are usually not very steep, they can be quite large at other time sectors. A particularly pronounced sharpening of the plasmapause occurs at the dusk sector with increasing Kp. The density in the region between the dayside plasmapause and magnetopause is relatively high during all Kp levels; the average densities are several electrons per cubic meter. During disturbed periods, the density in the near-earth plasma sheet near midnight increases and becomes higher than the densities towards the flanks of the plasma sheet.
    Keywords: Geophysics
    Type: Proceedings of the 31st ESALB Symposium on Correlated Phenomena at the Sun, in the Heliosphere and in Geospace; 53-58; ESA-SP-415
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    Spatial Distribution of Rolled up Kelvin-Helmholtz Vortices at Earth's Dayside and Flank Magnetopause (2012)
    In:  CASI
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    Publication Date: 2019-07-13
    Description: The Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability (KHI) can drive waves at the magnetopause. These waves can grow to form rolled-up vortices and facilitate transfer of plasma into the magnetosphere. To investigate the persistence and frequency of such waves at the magnetopause we have carried out a survey of all Double Star 1 magnetopause crossings, using a combination of ion and magnetic field measurements. Using criteria originally used in a Geotail study made by Hasegawa et al. (2006) (forthwith referred to as H2006), 17 candidate events were identified from the entire TC-1 mission (covering 623 orbits where the magnetopause was sampled), a majority of which were on the dayside of the terminator. The relationship between density and shear velocity was then investigated, to identify the predicted signature of a rolled up vortex from H2006 and all 17 events exhibited some level of rolled up behavior. The location of the events had a clear dawn-dusk asymmetry, with 12 (71 %) on the post noon, dusk flank suggesting preferential growth in this region.
    Keywords: Space Sciences (General); Geophysics
    Type: GSFC-E-DAA-TN9295 , Annales Geophysicae (ISSN 0992-7689); 30; 6; 1025-1035
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