Woodman Pollitt, Ronald Francisco2018-07-022018-07-021972-01-01Woodman, R. F. (1972). East-west ionospheric drifts at the magnetic equator.==$Space research XII,$==Berlin, East Germany, Akademie-Verlag GmbH, 969-974.http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12816/1628A technique has been developed to measure the electromagnetic east-west drift velocity of the F region ionosphere by means of the Jicamarca incoherent scatter radar. Results show a fairly consistent behavior from day to day even during a magnetically disturbed day. Velocities are westward with a maximum of the order of 50 m/sec during the day, and eastward with a maximum of the order of 135 m/sec during the night. They are shown as experimental evidence for the superrotation of the neutral atmosphere at equatorial latitudes, but with a velocity smaller than the values inferred from satellite drag.application/pdfenginfo:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccessIonosphereF regionRadarDoppler effectElectric fieldsIncoherent scattering radarIonospheric driftinfo:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObjecthttp://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#1.05.01