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Zeng, W. and Horwitz, J.L. (2007). Formula representation of auroral ionospheric O+ outflows based on systematic simulations with effects of soft electron precipitation and transverse ion heating. Geophysical Research Letters 34: doi: 10.1029/2006GL028632. issn: 0094-8276. |
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Systematic Dynamic Fluid Kinetic (DyFK) model simulations are conducted to obtain a simulation-based formula representation of the O+ outflow flux level versus the energy flux of soft electron precipitation, and wave spectral density of transverse wave heating in the high-latitude auroral region. Based on results of 140 DyFK simulations of auroral outflows, we depict the O+ outflows at the ends of these two hour simulation runs in spectrogram form versus these parameters. We also approximate the results by the formula representation: Flux O + = 8.8(3.0 W 105 + 2f e 1.4 W 107)(tanh (8D wave ) + 0.2D wave 0.6), where Flux O + is the O+ number flux in cm-2/s at 3 RE mapped to 1000 km altitude, f e is the electron precipitation energy flux in ergs cm-2/s, and D wave is the wave electric field spectral density at O+ gyrofrequency at 1 RE in (mV)2 m-2 Hz-1. This formula representation provides a convenient way to set the boundary conditions of the ionosphere in global magnetosphere simulation since the ionosphere is the important plasma source of the magnetosphere. |
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Keywords
Ionosphere, Ionosphere/magnetosphere interactions, Ionosphere, Particle precipitation, Ionosphere, Topside ionosphere, Ionosphere, Wave/particle interactions, Magnetospheric Physics, Numerical modeling |
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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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