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Bahcivan & Hysell 2006
Bahcivan, H. and Hysell, D.L. (2006). A model of secondary Farley-Buneman waves in the auroral electrojet. Journal of Geophysical Research 111: doi: 10.1029/2005JA011408. issn: 0148-0227.

We present a model of type II radar echoes associated with Farley-Buneman instability in the auroral E region. The plasma waves responsible for broad-type auroral radar echoes are described as secondary ion acoustic structures driven by the electric fields of the primary Farley-Buneman waves. Numerical solutions of a one-dimensional model of the secondary structures exhibit density irregularities advecting in the background electron flow direction while propagating and evolving in the transverse direction. The velocity of transverse propagation depends on amplitude, a circumstance that leads to nonlinear proper evolution in the form of compression or steepening. On the basis of symmetry, radar Doppler spectra should exhibit spectral shifts and widths proportional to the cosine and sine of the electron flow angle, respectively. This prediction is in line with a number of theoretical and experimental observations.

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Keywords
Ionosphere, Plasma waves and instabilities, Ionosphere, Ionospheric irregularities, Magnetospheric Physics, Auroral phenomena, Space Plasma Physics, Electrostatic structures, auroral electrojet irregularities, Farley-Buneman waves, type II radar echoes, secondary waves
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Journal of Geophysical Research
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