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Preliminary numerical study of the outer scale size of ionospheric plasma cloud striations. Memorandum report

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:5154892
The one-level, two-dimensional fluid equations modelling striation development in large F region ionospheric plasma clouds have been numerically solved, using an initial one-dimensional cloud geometry, for three different initial Pedersen conductivity gradient scale lengths L = 3, 6, 10 km. In the nonlinear regime evidence is presented for an outer scale size of well-developed striations in a direction (y) perpendicular to the ExB drift (x) of the plasma cloud whose initial Pedersen conductivity varies only along the drift direction.
Research Organization:
Naval Research Lab., Washington, DC (USA)
OSTI ID:
5154892
Report Number(s):
AD-A-078492/6
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English