Plasma transport through the dayside cleft: A source of ionization patches in the polar cap
Technical Report
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OSTI ID:7253441
Rapid sunward convection from the post-noon ionosphere carries high-density solar-produced F-region plasma through the dayside cleft and into the polar cap. This plasma is swept through the noontime cleft and enters the polar cap as a tongue of ionization which delineates the convection trajectory and its dynamics and provides the source for enhanced F-region plasmas and their effects which are observed at high polar latitudes away from noon.
- Research Organization:
- Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., Cambridge, MA (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 7253441
- Report Number(s):
- AD-A-214461/6/XAB
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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640201* -- Atmospheric Physics-- Auroral
Ionospheric
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71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
CONVECTION
EARTH ATMOSPHERE
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F REGION
HEAT TRANSFER
IONIZATION
IONOSPHERE
MASS TRANSFER
MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
PLANETARY IONOSPHERES
PLASMA DRIFT
POLAR REGIONS
RADAR
RANGE FINDERS
TRAJECTORIES
Ionospheric
& Magetospheric Phenomena
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
CONVECTION
EARTH ATMOSPHERE
ENERGY TRANSFER
F REGION
HEAT TRANSFER
IONIZATION
IONOSPHERE
MASS TRANSFER
MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
PLANETARY IONOSPHERES
PLASMA DRIFT
POLAR REGIONS
RADAR
RANGE FINDERS
TRAJECTORIES