Equatorial zonal plasma drifts measured by the C/NOFS satellite during the 2008–2011 solar minimum

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dc.contributor.authorFejer, Bela G.
dc.contributor.authorTracy, Brian D.
dc.contributor.authorPfaff, Robert F.
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-09T17:23:08Z
dc.date.available2018-11-09T17:23:08Z
dc.date.issued2013-06-26
dc.description.abstractWe use the measurements by the Vector Electric Field Investigation (VEFI) on board the Communication/Navigation Outage Forecasting System (C/NOFS) satellite to study the local time and seasonal‐ and longitudinal‐dependent climatology of equatorial F region zonal plasma drifts during 2008–2011. These drifts are essentially westward during the day and eastward at night. Over Jicamarca Radio Observatory, the satellite measurements are in good agreement with incoherent scatter radar drifts. Our data show strong longitudinal variations, particularly in the South American sector during the solstices. The equinoctial data exhibit short‐lived and largely enhanced westward drifts near sunrise and wave‐4 structures from the early afternoon to late night equinoctial periods. The nighttime eastward drifts are largest near the western American sector at all seasons. The June solstice postmidnight eastward drifts decrease sharply at longitudes of about 310° and have much smaller values in the entire Eastern Hemisphere. We also briefly discuss the relationship between the longitude‐dependent vertical and zonal plasma drifts.es_ES
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dc.identifier.citationFejer, B. G., Tracy, B. D., & Pfaff, R. F. (2013). Equatorial zonal plasma drifts measured by the C/NOFS satellite during the 2008–2011 solar minimum.==$Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 118$==(6), 3891-3897. https://doi.org/10.1002/jgra.50382es_ES
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1002/jgra.50382es_ES
dc.identifier.journalJournal of Geophysical Research: Space Physicses_ES
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12816/3520
dc.language.isoenges_ES
dc.publisherAmerican Geophysical Uniones_ES
dc.relation.ispartofurn:issn:2169-9380
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccesses_ES
dc.subjectElectric fieldses_ES
dc.subjectEquatorial ionospherees_ES
dc.subjectEquatorial zonal driftses_ES
dc.subjectIonospheric dynamicses_ES
dc.subject.ocdehttp://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#1.05.01es_ES
dc.titleEquatorial zonal plasma drifts measured by the C/NOFS satellite during the 2008–2011 solar minimumes_ES
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlees_ES

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