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Otsuka, Y., Shiokawa, K., Ogawa, T., Yokoyama, T., Yamamoto, M. and Fukao, S. (2004). Spatial relationship of equatorial plasma bubbles and field-aligned irregularities observed with an all-sky airglow imager and the Equatorial Atmosphere Radar. Geophysical Research Letters 31: doi: 10.1029/2004GL020869. issn: 0094-8276. |
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We report, for the first time, simultaneous two-dimensional observations of 630-nm airglow depletions and radar backscatter from field-aligned irregularities (FAI) associated with equatorial plasma bubbles. Spatial distributions of backscatter were obtained by performing east-west scans with the 47-MHz Equatorial Atmosphere Radar (EAR) in West Sumatra, Indonesia. A 630-nm airglow depletion, caused by a plasma bubble, was simultaneously observed with an all-sky airglow imager. Both the airglow depletion and backscatter region appeared as band-like structure elongated in the meridional direction with a zonal width of about 100 km. To compare the spatial structures of backscatter with that of airglow depletion, the backscatter was projected onto a horizontal plane at 250-km altitude. Backscatter was found to occur within the entire airglow-depleted region. |
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Keywords
Atmospheric Composition and Structure, Airglow and aurora, Ionosphere, Equatorial ionosphere, Ionosphere, Ionospheric disturbances, Ionosphere, Ionospheric irregularities |
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American Geophysical Union 2000 Florida Avenue N.W. Washington, D.C. 20009-1277 USA 1-202-462-6900 1-202-328-0566 service@agu.org |
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