Arecibo measurements of D-region electron densities during sunset and sunrise: implications for atmospheric composition

• Published in: Annales Geophysicae
• Main Authors: Baumann, Carsten, Kero, Antti, Raizada, Shikha, Rapp, Markus, Sulzer, Michael P., Verronen, Pekka T., Vierinen, Juha
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2022
• Subjects: Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre; Institut für Solar-Terrestrische Physik; Sodankylä
• Online Access: https://elib.dlr.de/187814/; https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-40-519-2022

Earth's lower ionosphere is the region where terrestrial weather and space weather come together. Here, between 60 and 100 km altitude, solar radiation governs the diurnal cycle of the ionized species. This altitude range is also the place where nanometre-sized dust particles, recondensed from...