Polar cap influx

• Published in: Annales Geophysicae
• Main Authors: MacDougall, J., Jayachandran, P. T.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2005
• Subjects: article; Verlagsveröffentlichung; Cambridge Bay
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-23-1755-2005; https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00034009; https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00033963/angeo-23-1755-2005.pdf; https://angeo.copernicus.org/articles/23/1755/2005/angeo-23-1755-2005.pdf

This study uses digital ionosonde data from a cusp latitude station (Cambridge Bay, 77° CGM lat.) to study the convection into the polar cap. Days when the IMF magnetic field was relatively steady were used. On many days it was possible to distinguish an interval near noon MLT when the ionosonde dat...