Letter to the Editor First complementary observations by ionospheric tomography, the EISCAT Svalbard radar and the CUTLASS HF radar

Abstract. Experimental results are presented from ionospheric tomography, the EISCAT Svalbard radar and the CUTLASS HF radar. Tomographic measurements on 10 October 1996, showing a narrow, field-aligned enhancement in electron density in the post-noon sector of the dayside auroral zone, are related...

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Main Authors: C. N. Mitchell, I. K. Walker, S. E. Pryse, I. Kersley, I. W. Mccrea, T. B. Jones
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Subjects:
Svalbard
EISCAT
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.371.6043
http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/31/64/77/PDF/angeo-16-1519-1998.pdf
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Summary:Abstract. Experimental results are presented from ionospheric tomography, the EISCAT Svalbard radar and the CUTLASS HF radar. Tomographic measurements on 10 October 1996, showing a narrow, field-aligned enhancement in electron density in the post-noon sector of the dayside auroral zone, are related to a temporal increase in the plasma concentration observed by the incoherent scatter radar in the region where the HF radar indicated a low velocity sunwards convection. The results demonstrate the complementary nature of these three instruments for polar-cap ionospheric studies. Key words. Ionosphere · Auroral ionosphere · Polar ionosphere · Radio science (ionospheric physics)

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