scholarly journals Incoherent scatter radar study of photochemistry in the E-region

2005 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Qihou H. Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Incoherent Scatter Radar ◽  
Incoherent Scatter ◽  
Scatter Radar ◽  
E Region

scholarly journals Poker Flat Incoherent Scatter Radar observations of anomalous electron heating in the E region

2013 ◽  
Vol 31 (7) ◽  
pp. 1163-1176 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. A. Makarevich ◽  
A. V. Koustov ◽  
M. J. Nicolls
Keyword(s):  
Electric Field ◽  
Electron Temperature ◽  
Electric Fields ◽  
Linear Trend ◽  
Incoherent Scatter Radar ◽  
Electron Heating ◽  
Incoherent Scatter ◽  
Convection Electric Field ◽  
Scatter Radar ◽  
E Region

Abstract. A comprehensive 2-year dataset collected with the Poker Flat Incoherent Scatter Radar (PFISR) located near Fairbanks, Alaska (MLAT = 65.4° N) is employed to identify and analyse 22 events of anomalous electron heating (AEH) in the auroral E region. The overall AEH occurrence probability is conservatively estimated to be 0.3% from nearly-continuous observations of the E region by PFISR, although it increases to 0.7–0.9% in the dawn and dusk sectors where all AEH events were observed. The AEH occurrence variation with MLT is broadly consistent with those of events with high convection velocity (>1000 m s−1) or electron temperature (> 800 K), except for much smaller AEH probability and absence of AEH events near magnetic midnight. This suggests that high convection electric field by itself is necessary but not sufficient for measurable electron heating by two-stream plasma waves. The multi-point observations are utilised to investigate the fundamental dependence of the electron temperature on the convection electric field, focusing on the previously-proposed saturation effects at extreme electric fields. The AEH dataset was found to exhibit considerable scatter and, on average, similar rate of the electron temperature increase with the electric field up to 100 mV m−1 as compared with previous studies. At higher (highest) electric fields, the electron temperatures are below the linear trend on average (within uncertainty). By employing a simple fluid model of AEH, it is demonstrated that some of this deviation from the linear trend may be due to a stronger vibrational cooling at very large temperatures and electric fields.

scholarly journals Incoherent scatter radar observation of E-region vertical electric field at Arecibo

2011 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. n/a-n/a ◽  
Author(s):  
Q. H. Zhou ◽  
Y. T. Morton ◽  
C. M. Huang ◽  
N. Aponte ◽  
M. Sulzer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Electric Field ◽  
Radar Observation ◽  
Incoherent Scatter Radar ◽  
Incoherent Scatter ◽  
Scatter Radar ◽  
Vertical Electric Field ◽  
E Region
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