Driving Influences of Ionospheric Electrodynamics at Mid- and High-Latitudes

• Main Author: Maimaiti, Maimaitirebike
• Other Authors: Electrical Engineering, Ruohoniemi, J. Michael, Clauer, C. Robert, Scales, Wayne A., Buehrer, R. Michael, Baker, Joseph B. H., Wynne, Randolph H.
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: Virginia Tech 2020
• Subjects: Ionospheric Electrodynamics; Magnetic Reconnection; Penetration Electric Field; Substorm Onset Prediction; Machine learning; Resolute Bay
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/96453

The ionosphere carries a substantial portion of the electrical current flowing in Earth's space environment. Currents and electric fields in the ionosphere are generated through (1) the interaction of the solar wind with the magnetosphere, i.e. magnetic reconnection and (2) the collision of neu...