On the Reversal from “Sunward” to “Antisunward” Plasma Convection in the Dayside High Latitude Ionosphere

Authors

T S. Jorgensen
E Friis-Christensen
Vincent B. Wickwar, Utah State UniversityFollow
J D. Kelly
C R. Clauer
P M. Banks

Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Geophysical Research Letters

Volume

11

Issue

9

Publication Date

1984

First Page

887

Last Page

890

Abstract

Preliminary observations of dayside high latitude ionospheric plasma convection with the Sondrestrom incoherent‐scatter radar indicate that plasma can be observed to enter the polar cap region through rotational reversals at most local times between dawn and dusk and not just in a narrow region around noon. Assuming that rotational reversals are signatures of a solar wind‐magnetosphere interaction which drives magnetospheric convection, the observations indicate that this interaction occurs over a longitudinally wide area of the dayside magnetosphere. The observations also show that the distribution of F‐region plasma in the polar cap is dependent on ionization sources anywhere between dawn and dusk in the dayside high latitude ionosphere.

Comments

Published by the American Geophysical Union in Geophysical Research Letters. Publisher PDF is available for download through link above.

Recommended Citation

Jorgensen, T. S., E. Friis‐Christensen, V. B. Wickwar, J. D. Kelly, C. R. Clauer, and P. M. Banks (1984), On the reversal from “sunward” to “antisunward“ plasma convection in the dayside high latitude ionosphere, Geophys. Res. Lett., 11(9), 887–890, doi:10.1029/GL011i009p00887.