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Volume 61 Supplement 4

Special Issue: Coupling Processes in the Equatorial Atmosphere (CPEA)

Possible influence of ultra-fast Kelvin wave on the equatorial ionosphere evening uplifting

Earth, Planets and Space volume 61, pages 455–462 (2009)Cite this article

Abstract

Equatorial 3.5-day ultra-fast Kelvin wave was observed in the MLT zonal wind measured by meteor radar at Cariri (7.4°S, 36.5°W, geomag. 8°S) and in the stratosphere-mesosphere temperature structures from the TIMED/SABER data. The ionospheric F-layer bottom-side virtual height hT’F and the critical frequency foF2 observed at Fortaleza (3.9°S, 38.4°W, geomag. 5°S) also showed similar oscillation structures, indicating an influence of the Kelvin wave in the F region height and modulation of E × B uplifting during the evening period. Consequently the ionospheric spread F onset time was also modulated in the same period, around 4 days.

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  1. Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, INPE, São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil

    H. Takahashi, M. A. Abdu, J. Fechine, I. S. Batista, P. P. Batista, B. R. Clemesha & D. Gobbi

  2. IP&D, Universidade do Vale do Paraíba, UNIVAP, São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil

    C. M. Wrasse

  3. Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK

    D. Pancheva

  4. Departamento de Fisica, Universidade Estadual de Paraíba, Campina Grande, PB, Brazil

    L. M. Lima

  5. Solar Terrestrial Environmental Laboratory, STEL, Nagoya University, Toyokawa, Aichi, Japan

    K. Shiokawa

  6. Atmospheric Sciences Division, NASA, Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA

    M. G. Mlynczak

  7. Center for Atmospheric Sciences, Hampton University, Hampton, VA, USA

    J. M. Russell

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Takahashi, H., Abdu, M.A., Wrasse, C.M. et al. Possible influence of ultra-fast Kelvin wave on the equatorial ionosphere evening uplifting. Earth Planet Sp 61, 455–462 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1186/BF03353162

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