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Uplift of ionospheric oxygen ions during extreme magnetic storms
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Verkhoglyadova, Olga P. Lakhina, Gurbax S. Huba, Joseph Tsurutani, Bruce T. Mannucci, Anthony J. |
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Description | Research reported earlier in literature was conducted relating to estimation of the ionospheric electrical field, which may have occurred during the September 1859 Carrington geomagnetic storm event, with regard to modern-day consequences. In this research, the NRL SAMI2 ionospheric code has been modified and applied the estimated electric field to the dayside ionosphere. The modeling was done at 15-minute time increments to track the general ionospheric changes. Although it has been known that magnetospheric electric fields get down into the ionosphere, it has been only in the last ten years that scientists have discovered that intense magnetic storm electric fields do also. On the dayside, these dawn-to-dusk directed electric fields lift the plasma (electrons and ions) up to higher altitudes and latitudes. As plasma is removed from lower altitudes, solar UV creates new plasma, so the total plasma in the ionosphere is increased several-fold. Thus, this complex process creates super-dense plasmas at high altitudes (from 700 to 1,000 km and higher). |
| File Size | 91992 |
| Page Count | 1 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20130014111 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t3zs7r259 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2013-07-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Man/system Technology And Life Support Plasmas Physics Ionospheric Currents Ions Oxygen Ions Electric Fields Magnetic Storms Dense Plasmas Electrons Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |
