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Chau & Woodman 2004
Chau, J.L. and Woodman, R.F. (2004). Daytime vertical and zonal velocities from 150-km echoes: Their relevance to F-region dynamics. Geophysical Research Letters 31: doi: 10.1029/2004GL020800. issn: 0094-8276.

As it was suggested by Kudeki and Fawcett <1993>, and later shown by Woodman and Villanueva <1995>, vertical Doppler velocities of daytime 150-km echoes represent the vertical E ¿ B drift velocities at F region altitudes. Recently a special experiment was conducted to compare not only the vertical but also the zonal velocities from 150-km echoes with those from an incoherent scatter radar (ISR) mode perpendicular to the magnetic field. The vertical velocity comparisons show that (1) there is a very good agreement between 150-km velocity and the mean F-region E ¿ B drift, and (2) much better agreement is found with the extrapolated values from the ISR altitudinal profiles. On the other hand poor-to-good agreement is found between their zonal components. Our preliminary zonal velocity results, indicate that there is a poor agreement before noontime, while better agreement is found in the afternoon.

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Keywords
Ionosphere, Electric fields, Ionosphere, Equatorial ionosphere, Ionosphere, Ionosphere/atmosphere interactions, Ionosphere, Ionospheric dynamics, Ionosphere, Ionospheric irregularities
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Geophysical Research Letters
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