SIMULTANEOUS OPTICAL AND HF RADAR OBSERVATIONS OF THE IONOSPHERIC CUSP

Citation
As. Rodger et al., SIMULTANEOUS OPTICAL AND HF RADAR OBSERVATIONS OF THE IONOSPHERIC CUSP, Geophysical research letters, 22(15), 1995, pp. 2045-2048
Citations number
21
Categorie Soggetti
Geosciences, Interdisciplinary
ISSN journal
00948276
Volume
22
Issue
15
Year of publication
1995
Pages
2045 - 2048
Database
ISI
SICI code
0094-8276(1995)22:15<2045:SOAHRO>2.0.ZU;2-0
Abstract
Simultaneous optical all-sky imager and photometer data from South Pol e station and the PACE HF radar at Halley, Antarctica from two case st udies are used to show that their respective ionospheric signatures of the magnetospheric cusp are collocated to better than about 1 degrees latitude. The plasma convection reversal as identified in the PACE da ta is usually observed within the region showing cusp precipitation, a s expected from contemporary models of this region of geospace.