کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1776776 1523634 2013 8 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Fine structure in midlatitude sporadic E layers
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه علوم زمین و سیارات فیزیک زمین (ژئو فیزیک)
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Fine structure in midlatitude sporadic E layers
چکیده انگلیسی

Fine structure in midlatitude sporadic E layer patches or “clouds” is apparent in incoherent scatter observations from the Arecibo Radio Telescope. The fine structure is wavelike with predominant horizontal wavelengths as large as about 2–3 km. We attribute the structure to a drift wave instability operating in the collisional regime. A linear, local dispersion relation for the waves is described which predicts growth driven by polarization electric fields in the cloud. A numerical simulation produces wave growth and other features consistent with the dispersion relation, including finite parallel wavenumbers. The kilometric irregularities are thought to be the primary waves from which secondary, meter-scale waves in the layers can form.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics - Volume 103, October 2013, Pages 16–23
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