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Kaladze et al. 2004
Kaladze, T.D., Aburjania, G.D., Kharshiladze, O.A., Horton, W. and Kim, Y.-H. (2004). Theory of magnetized Rossby waves in the ionospheric E layer. Journal of Geophysical Research 109: doi: 10.1029/2003JA010049. issn: 0148-0227.

For the weakly ionized E layer plasma, a generalized Charney-Obukhov equation for magnetized Rossby waves is derived. This magnetized Rossby wave is produced by the dynamo electric field and represents the ionospheric generalization of tropospheric Rossby waves in a rotating atmosphere by the spatially inhomogeneous geomagnetic field. The basic characteristics of the wave are given. The modified Rossby velocity and Rossby-Obukhov radius are introduced. The mechanism of self-organization into solitary vortical nonlinear structures is examined. The mechanism of a self-organization of solitary structures is the result of the mutual compensation of wave dispersion and interaction through the scalar and Poisson bracket convective nonlinearities in the nonlinear wave equation. As a result, the solitary structures are anisotropic, containing a circular vortex superimposed on a dipole perturbation. The degree of anisotropy sharply increases when the vortex size approaches the so-called intermediate geostrophic size.

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Ionosphere, Ionosphere/atmosphere interactions, Ionosphere, Ionospheric dynamics, Ionosphere, Modeling and forecasting, Ionosphere, Plasma waves and instabilities, Ionosphere, Electric fields, ionosphere, magnetized Rossby wave, nonlinear wave
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Journal of Geophysical Research
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