| Autor: |
Chu, YH, Wang, CY, Wu, KH, Chen, KT, Tzeng, KJ, Su, CL, Feng, W, Plane, JMC |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2014 |
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| ISSN: |
2169-9380 |
| Popis: |
On the basis of the Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate (COSMIC)-measured fluctuations in the signal-to-noise ratio and excess phase of the GPS signal piercing through ionospheric sporadic E (Es) layers, the general morphologies of these layers are presented for the period from July 2006 to May 2011. It is found that the latitudinal variation in the Es layer occurrence is substantially geomagnetically controlled, most frequent in the summer hemisphere within the geomagnetic latitude region between 10° and 70° and very rare in the geomagnetic equatorial zone. Model simulations show that the summer maximum (winter minimum) in the Es layer occurrence is very likely attributed to the convergence of the Fe+ concentration flux driven by the neutral wind. In addition to seasonal and spatial distributions, the height-time variations in the Es layer occurrence in the midlatitude (>30°) region in summer and spring are primarily dominated by the semidiurnal tides, which start to appear at local time around 6 and 18-h in the height range 110-120-km and gradually descend at a rate of about 0.9-1.6-km/h. In the low-latitude ( |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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