Thermospheric Responses to the 3 and 4 November 2021 Geomagnetic Storm During the Main and Recovery Phases as Observed by NASA's GOLD and ICON Missions

Autor: Quan Gan, Richard W. Eastes, Yen‐Jung Wu, Liying Qian, Xuguang Cai, Wenbin Wang, Scott L. England, William E. McClintock
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Geophysical Research Letters, Vol 51, Iss 1, Pp n/a-n/a (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1944-8007
0094-8276
DOI: 10.1029/2023GL106529
Popis: Abstract Leveraging observations by two NASA missions—GOLD (Global‐scale Observations of the Limb and Disk) and ICON (Ionospheric Connection Explorer), we investigate concurrent responses of thermospheric composition, temperatures, and neutral winds to the geomagnetic storm on 3–4 November 2021, as well as their interplay at low and middle latitudes. The synergetic observations reveal remarkable depletions up to 60%–70% in GOLD O/N2, along with large enhancements in GOLD temperatures poleward of 30° in the middle thermosphere. Meridional winds from ICON observations are altered by ∼100 m/s equatorward of 25°N latitude and at 250 km, characterized by a reversal of prevailing northward winds to geomagnetic storm‐driven southward winds. This study fills a need, after a decade‐long gap, for observing concurrent and co‐located responses of composition, temperatures, and neutral winds in the thermosphere to geomagnetic storms.
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