Studies of the low latitude electrodynamics during world days

Abstract

We propose to use Jicamarca radar observations during the World Day periods together with data from the San Marco satellite for the study of equatorial electrodynamics. These incoherent scatter World Day experiments are usually conducted during two or three yearly campaigns of two to three days each, and about 10 campaigns of about a day. These periods are selected from the times when the IMP-6 satellite is in the solar wind and can therefore provide the interplanetary magnetic field parameters.