Polar Cap Plasma Convection Measurements and their Relevance to the Real-Time Modeling of the High Latitude Ionosphere

• Main Authors: Buchau, Jurgen, Anderson, David N., Weber, Edward J., Reinisch, Bodo W., Dozois, Claude
• Other Authors: AIR FORCE GEOPHYSICS LAB HANSCOM AFB MA
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1987
• Subjects: Atmospheric Physics; *IONOSPHERE; *CONVECTION; *PLASMAS(PHYSICS); MEASUREMENT; MAGNETIC FIELDS; COMPUTATIONS; REAL TIME; GREENLAND; THEORY; DRIFT; PROFILES; REVERSIBLE; PATTERNS; IONOSPHERIC MODELS; HIGH LATITUDES; QUIET; REPRINTS; POLAR REGIONS; VELOCITY; ELECTRON DENSITY; PE61102F; WUAFGL464330805; Greenland; Qaanaaq; Thule
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA205703; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA205703

Plasma convection measurements, using Digisonde ionospheric sounders, have been conducted. The plasma convection or ionospheric drift measurements conducted at Thule and Qaanaaq during campaigns from Winter 1983/84 to present provide evidence, that antisunward convection dominates in the polar cap w...