A comparison of wind observations of the upper thermosphere from the dynamics explorer satellite with the predictions of a global time-dependent model
dc.contributor.author | Rees, D. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Fuller-Rowell, T. J. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Gordon, R. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Killeen, Timothy L. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Hays, Paul B. (Paul Byron) | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Wharton, L. E. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Spencer, Nelson W. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-04-07T18:37:34Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-04-07T18:37:34Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1983-11 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Rees, D., Fuller-Rowell, T. J., Gordon, R., Killeen, T. L., Hays, P. B., Wharton, L., Spencer, N. W. (1983/11)."A comparison of wind observations of the upper thermosphere from the dynamics explorer satellite with the predictions of a global time-dependent model." Planetary and Space Science 31(11): 1299-1314. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/25079> | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6V6T-46YD0C2-MB/2/5c3d48729b7c4ca1c4a7fee7ed317964 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/25079 | |
dc.description.abstract | Seven polar passes of the NASA Dynamics Explorer 2 (DE-2) satellite during October and early December 1981 have been used to examine the high-latitude circulation in the upper thermosphere. Vector winds along the satellite track are derived by appropriate merging of the data from the remote-sensing Fabry-Perot interferometer (meridional wind) and the in situ wind and temperature spectrometer (zonal wind) and are compared with the predictions of a three-dimensional, time-dependent, global model of the thermosphere. Major features of the experimental winds, such as the mean day to night circulation caused by solar u.v. and e.u.v. heating, augmented by magnetospheric processes at high latitude and the sharp boundaries and flow reversals imposed on thermospheric winds by momentum transfer (ion drag) from the magnetosphere, are qualitatively explained by a version of the global model using a semi-empirical global model of polar electric fields (Volland Model 2 or Heppner Model A) and a model of global electron density which excludes the effects of high-latitude geomagnetic processes. A second version of the global dynamic model includes a theoretical model of the high-latitude ionosphere which is self-consistent and reflects the enhancement of ionization due to magnetospheric phenomena acting in addition to solar e.u.v. photo-ionization, including the interactive processes which occur between ionization and high latitude ion convection and thermospheric winds. This second dynamical model shows an improved comparison with the structure and magnitude of polar cap and auroral oval winds at times of other than extremely low geomagnetic activity, when the first model appears a better match. An improved empirical description of the complex magnetospheric processes exciting the thermosphere in the vicinity of the dayside polar cusp and an empirical description of storm-time electric fields will be required for a quantitative explanation of the polar thermospheric winds during geomagnetic substorm events. | en_US |
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dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_US |
dc.title | A comparison of wind observations of the upper thermosphere from the dynamics explorer satellite with the predictions of a global time-dependent model | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.rights.robots | IndexNoFollow | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Science | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Space Physics Research Laboratory, University of Michigan, 2455 Hayward, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, U.S.A. | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Space Physics Research Laboratory, University of Michigan, 2455 Hayward, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, U.S.A. | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC 1E 6BT, U.K. | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC 1E 6BT, U.K. | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC 1E 6BT, U.K. | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, U.S.A. | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, U.S.A. | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/25079/1/0000510.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0032-0633(83)90067-3 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Planetary and Space Science | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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