posted on 2017-01-24, 10:33authored byA. Vontrat-Reberac, J. C. Cerisier, N. Sato, M. Lester
Using experimental data from the Cutlass Super-DARN HF radars and from a subset of ground magnetometers of the IMAGE Scandinavian chain, the response of the ionosphere in the noon sector to a solar wind pressure increase is studied. The emphasis is on the signature of the convection vortices and of the Hall currents that are associated with the pair of opposite parallel currents flowing along the morning and afternoon high-latitude magnetic field lines. We show that the sudden commencement is characterised by an equatorward convection, immediately followed (within less than 3 min) by a strong poleward plasma motion. These results are shown to agree qualitatively with the global model of sudden commencement of Araki (1994).
Funding
The CUTLASS SuperDARN radars are supported
by the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council
(PPARC) in the UK, the Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala,
and the Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki. The research
at CETP was supported by Institut National des Sciences de
l’Univers (INSU) in France. We thank R. Lepping and K. Ogilvie
for providing respectively the Wind solar wind IMF and plasma data
through the Coordinated Data Analysis Web (CDAWeb). We thank
D. Hardy, F. Rich and P. Newell for the use of DMSP particle data.
The IMAGE magnetometer data are provided through the Finnish
Meteorological Institute, and the Hermanus magnetometer data are
provided through the World Data Center for Geomagnetism in Kyoto.
History
Citation
Annales Geophysicae, 2002, 20 (5), pp. 639-645 (7)
Author affiliation
/Organisation/COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING/Department of Physics and Astronomy
Version
VoR (Version of Record)
Published in
Annales Geophysicae
Publisher
European Geosciences Union (EGU), Copernicus Publications, Springer Verlag (Germany)