Meridional thermospheric neutral wind at high latitude over a full solar cycle

International audience EISCAT radar experiments over a full solar cycle between January 1984 and March 1995 have been used to construct meridional neutral wind patterns in the ionospheric F region. For locally geomagnetically quiet periods the neutral winds have been binned according to season, sola...

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Main Authors: Witasse, O., Lilensten, J., Lathuillere, C., Pibaret, B.
Other Authors: Laboratoire des images et des signaux (LIS), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: HAL CCSD 1998
Subjects:
[SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean
Atmosphere
[SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences
EISCAT
Online Access:https://hal.science/hal-00329108
https://hal.science/hal-00329108/document
https://hal.science/hal-00329108/file/angeo-16-1400-1998.pdf
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Summary:International audience EISCAT radar experiments over a full solar cycle between January 1984 and March 1995 have been used to construct meridional neutral wind patterns in the ionospheric F region. For locally geomagnetically quiet periods the neutral winds have been binned according to season, solar activity, and universal time. The diurnal and seasonal behaviors and the effect of the solar flux are described. An empirical model of the meridional neutral wind for the high latitudes at eight altitudes in the ionospheric F region over a full solar cycle is presented. Results are compared with other recent empirical models.

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