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Stallard et al. 2003
Stallard, T.S., Miller, S., Cowley, S.W.H. and Bunce, E.J. (2003). Jupiter's polar ionospheric flows: Measured intensity and velocity variations poleward of the main auroral oval. Geophysical Research Letters 30: doi: 10.1029/2002GL016031. issn: 0094-8276.

Recent analysis of high-resolution spectra of Doppler-shifted H3+ emission from the auroral/polar regions of Jupiter revealed a complex wind system, with a persistent auroral electrojet and strong anti-sunward flows in a region of lesser intensity centred around the magnetic pole <Stallard et al., 2001>. This region, which we have called the Dark Polar Region (DPR), is re-investigated, transforming the observed line-of-sight velocities into a frame of reference fixed with respect to the magnetic pole. The DPR is shown to include a region essentially stagnant in this frame of reference (the f-DPR). We identify it as a region coupled to open magnetotail field lines. There is also a transition region in which the ion velocity returns to corotation (the r-DPR).

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Planetology, Fluid Planets, Interactions with particles and fields, Planetology, Fluid Planets, Ionospheres, Planetology, Solar System Objects, Jupiter, Ionosphere, Ionospheric dynamics, Ionosphere, Planetary ionospheres (5435, 5729, 6026, 6027, 6028)
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Geophysical Research Letters
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