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Kudeki et al. 1981
Kudeki, E., Fejer, B.G., Farley, D.T. and Ierkic, H.M. (1981). Interferometer studies of equatorial F region irregularities and drifts. Geophysical Research Letters 8: doi: 10.1029/GL008i004p00377. issn: 0094-8276.

A radar interferometer technique developed at Jicamarca, Peru and first used to study electrojet irregularities has now been used successfully to study plasma turbulence in the equatorial F region. Our first results have shown that the most 'turbulent' echoes appear to come from a region that extends for tens of kilometers in altitude but for only a kilometer or less in the east--west direction. This slab may very well be the wall of a depleted region, a plasma 'bubble'. Sometimes the irregularities can be tracked as they move eastward or westward. Velocity profiles for the evening period obtained in this way show a strong shear, with westward velocities at the lowest altitudes observed and eastward velocities above. A plausible explanation for this shear is that the westward drifts are driven by electric fields produced by westward E region winds and mapped up along magnetic field lines, while at higher heights, where the electron density is greater, the drifts are controlled by the F region dynamo driven by eastward winds.

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