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Otsuka et al. 2004
Otsuka, Y., Shiokawa, K., Ogawa, T. and Wilkinson, P. (2004). Geomagnetic conjugate observations of medium-scale traveling ionospheric disturbances at midlatitude using all-sky airglow imagers. Geophysical Research Letters 31: doi: 10.1029/2004GL020262. issn: 0094-8276.

We report for the first time simultaneous observations of medium-scale traveling ionospheric disturbances (MSTIDs) at geomagnetic conjugate points in both hemispheres, using two all-sky airglow imagers at midlatitudes. A 630-nm all-sky CCD imager at Sata, Japan, detected MSTIDs with a wavefront elongated from NW to SE on the night of August 9, 2002. During this event, MSTIDs with a wavefront elongated from SW to NE were observed at the geomagnetic conjugate point, Darwin, Australia. To investigate geomagnetic conjugacy of the MSTID structures, the Darwin images were mapped The MSTID structures mapped from Darwin to its magnetic conjugate points along the geomagnetic field lines (B) coincide closely with those in the Sata images. This result suggests that polarization electric field (Ep) plays an important role in the generation of MSTIDs. Ep maps along B and moves the F region plasma upward or downward by E ¿ B drifts, causing plasma density perturbations with structures mirrored in the northern and southern hemispheres.

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Keywords
Atmospheric Composition and Structure, Airglow and aurora, Ionosphere, Ionospheric disturbances, Ionosphere, Ionospheric irregularities, Ionosphere, Midlatitude ionosphere, Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics, Thermospheric dynamics
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Geophysical Research Letters
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