Heating and decay of irregularities in the electrostatically unstable plasma of the upper ionosphere

Authors
Izhovkina, NI Karpachev, AT Prutenskii, IS Pulinets, SA Klos, Z Rothkaehl, H
Citation
Ni. Izhovkina et al., Heating and decay of irregularities in the electrostatically unstable plasma of the upper ionosphere, GEOMAG AERO, 41(4), 2001, pp. 469-473
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Earth Sciences
Journal title
GEOMAGNETISM AND AERONOMY
ISSN journal
00167932 → ACNP
Volume
41
Issue
4
Year of publication
2001
Pages
469 - 473
Database
ISI
SICI code
0016-7932(200107/08)41:4<469:HADOII>2.0.ZU;2-M
Abstract
Observations of broadband electrostatic emissions in the upper ionosphere ( APEX mission data) have been considered. It has been shown that the heating of plasma irregularities and their decay to small-scale structures are due to the transformation of the phase-space volume of electrostatic oscillati ons in the frequency-wave-vector space associated with variations in the pl asma parameters.