ESR and EISCAT observations of the response of the cusp and cleft to IMF orientation changes
International audience We report observations of the cusp/cleft ionosphere made on December 16th 1998 by the EISCAT (European incoherent scatter) VHF radar at Tromsø and the EISCAT Svalbard radar (ESR). We compare them with observations of the dayside auroral luminosity, as seen by meridian scanning...
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ftunivnantes:oai:HAL:hal-00329153v1 2023-05-15T16:04:34+02:00 ESR and EISCAT observations of the response of the cusp and cleft to IMF orientation changes Mccrea, I. W. Lockwood, M. Moen, J. Pitout, F. Eglitis, P. Aylward, A. D. Cerisier, Jean-Claude Thorolfssen, A. Milan, S. E. Space Science and Technology Department Didcot (RAL Space) STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)-Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) School of Physics and Astronomy Southampton University of Southampton Arctic Geophysics Research The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala (IRF) Atmospheric Physics Laboratory UCL London University College of London London (UCL) Centre d'étude des environnements terrestre et planétaires (CETP) Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Department of Physics and Astronomy Leicester University of Leicester 2000 https://hal.science/hal-00329153 https://hal.science/hal-00329153/document https://hal.science/hal-00329153/file/angeo-18-1009-2000.pdf en eng HAL CCSD European Geosciences Union hal-00329153 https://hal.science/hal-00329153 https://hal.science/hal-00329153/document https://hal.science/hal-00329153/file/angeo-18-1009-2000.pdf info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess ISSN: 0992-7689 EISSN: 1432-0576 Annales Geophysicae https://hal.science/hal-00329153 Annales Geophysicae, 2000, 18 (9), pp.1009-1026 [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean Atmosphere [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2000 ftunivnantes 2023-02-08T04:19:58Z International audience We report observations of the cusp/cleft ionosphere made on December 16th 1998 by the EISCAT (European incoherent scatter) VHF radar at Tromsø and the EISCAT Svalbard radar (ESR). We compare them with observations of the dayside auroral luminosity, as seen by meridian scanning photometers at Ny Ålesund and of HF radar backscatter, as observed by the CUTLASS radar. We study the response to an interval of about one hour when the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF), monitored by the WIND and ACE spacecraft, was southward. The cusp/cleft aurora is shown to correspond to a spatially extended region of elevated electron temperatures in the VHF radar data. Initial conditions were characterised by a northward-directed IMF and cusp/cleft aurora poleward of the ESR. A strong southward turning then occurred, causing an equatorward motion of the cusp/cleft aurora. Within the equatorward expanding, southward-IMF cusp/cleft, the ESR observed structured and elevated plasma densities and ion and electron temperatures. Cleft ion fountain upflows were seen in association with elevated ion temperatures and rapid eastward convection, consistent with the magnetic curvature force on newly opened field lines for the observed negative IMF B y . Subsequently, the ESR beam remained immediately poleward of the main cusp/cleft and a sequence of poleward-moving auroral transients passed over it. After the last of these, the ESR was in the polar cap and the radar observations were characterised by extremely low ionospheric densities and downward field-aligned flows. The IMF then turned northward again and the auroral oval contracted such that the ESR moved back into the cusp/cleft region. For the poleward-retreating, northward-IMF cusp/cleft, the convection flows were slower, upflows were weaker and the electron density and temperature enhancements were less structured. Following the northward turning, the bands of high electron temperature and cusp/cleft aurora bifurcated, consistent with both subsolar and lobe ... Article in Journal/Newspaper EISCAT Ny Ålesund Ny-Ålesund Svalbard Tromsø Université de Nantes: HAL-UNIV-NANTES Ny-Ålesund Svalbard Tromsø |
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International audience We report observations of the cusp/cleft ionosphere made on December 16th 1998 by the EISCAT (European incoherent scatter) VHF radar at Tromsø and the EISCAT Svalbard radar (ESR). We compare them with observations of the dayside auroral luminosity, as seen by meridian scanning photometers at Ny Ålesund and of HF radar backscatter, as observed by the CUTLASS radar. We study the response to an interval of about one hour when the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF), monitored by the WIND and ACE spacecraft, was southward. The cusp/cleft aurora is shown to correspond to a spatially extended region of elevated electron temperatures in the VHF radar data. Initial conditions were characterised by a northward-directed IMF and cusp/cleft aurora poleward of the ESR. A strong southward turning then occurred, causing an equatorward motion of the cusp/cleft aurora. Within the equatorward expanding, southward-IMF cusp/cleft, the ESR observed structured and elevated plasma densities and ion and electron temperatures. Cleft ion fountain upflows were seen in association with elevated ion temperatures and rapid eastward convection, consistent with the magnetic curvature force on newly opened field lines for the observed negative IMF B y . Subsequently, the ESR beam remained immediately poleward of the main cusp/cleft and a sequence of poleward-moving auroral transients passed over it. After the last of these, the ESR was in the polar cap and the radar observations were characterised by extremely low ionospheric densities and downward field-aligned flows. The IMF then turned northward again and the auroral oval contracted such that the ESR moved back into the cusp/cleft region. For the poleward-retreating, northward-IMF cusp/cleft, the convection flows were slower, upflows were weaker and the electron density and temperature enhancements were less structured. Following the northward turning, the bands of high electron temperature and cusp/cleft aurora bifurcated, consistent with both subsolar and lobe ... |
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Space Science and Technology Department Didcot (RAL Space) STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)-Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) School of Physics and Astronomy Southampton University of Southampton Arctic Geophysics Research The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala (IRF) Atmospheric Physics Laboratory UCL London University College of London London (UCL) Centre d'étude des environnements terrestre et planétaires (CETP) Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Department of Physics and Astronomy Leicester University of Leicester |
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ESR and EISCAT observations of the response of the cusp and cleft to IMF orientation changes |
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ESR and EISCAT observations of the response of the cusp and cleft to IMF orientation changes |
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ESR and EISCAT observations of the response of the cusp and cleft to IMF orientation changes |
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ESR and EISCAT observations of the response of the cusp and cleft to IMF orientation changes |
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ESR and EISCAT observations of the response of the cusp and cleft to IMF orientation changes |
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esr and eiscat observations of the response of the cusp and cleft to imf orientation changes |
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ISSN: 0992-7689 EISSN: 1432-0576 Annales Geophysicae https://hal.science/hal-00329153 Annales Geophysicae, 2000, 18 (9), pp.1009-1026 |
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