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Title: | Height gradient of F region vertical drift in the evening equatorial ionosphere |
Authors: | Sastri, J. H Varma, V. K. M Nayar, S. R. P |
Keywords: | Ionosphere: Equatorial Ionosphere Ionosphere: Electric Fields Ionosphere: Ionospheric Disturbances |
Issue Date: | Oct-1995 |
Publisher: | American Geophysical Union |
Citation: | Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 22, No. 19, pp. 2645 - 2648 |
Abstract: | Simultaneous measurements of F-region vertical drift are made in the evening hours (1700-2100 IST) at Trivandrum (dip 0.6°N) and Kodaikanal (dip 4°N) on fifteen days during December 1993- January 1994 using the HF phase path technique on two different probing frequencies. The data are used to study the height dependence of vertical plasma drift in the bottomside F-region in the dusk sector after correcting the drifts (at Kodaikanal) for meridional wind effects and chemical loss.<p>It is found that growth and decay of a positive height gradient in vertical drift occurs fairly regularly in the dusk period. On the average the verticity gradient is positive in the interval 1815-1925 IST and is preceded by negative values. The positive height gradient of vertical plasma drift below the F layer peak is interpreted in terms of altitude dependence of the relative contributions of E and F region dynamos to the electric fields responsible for plasma drifts (vertical and zonal) of the dusktime equatorial F-region. These results are for winter solstice solar minimum conditions. . |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2248/3027 |
ISSN: | 0094-8276 |
Appears in Collections: | IIAP Publications |
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