An Ionospheric Drift Theory of Aurora and Airglow

• Published in: Geophysical Journal International
• Main Author: Piddington, J. H.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 1963
• Subjects: Articles; North Pole; Pedersen
• Online Access: http://gji.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/7/4/415; https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.1963.tb07086.x

An earlier theory of polar geomagnetic storms is extended to determine the drifts of neutral ionization (electrons and positive ions moving with the same velocity in a direction perpendicular to the current vector). The theory gives the system of ionospheric electric fields and this gives the drift...