Three-dimensional ionospheric electron density structure of the Weddell Sea Anomaly

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题名:	Three-dimensional ionospheric electron density structure of the Weddell Sea Anomaly
作者:	Lin,CH;Liu,JY;Cheng,CZ;Chen,CH;Liu,CH;Wang,W;Burns,AG;Lei,J
贡献者:	太空科學研究所
日期:	2009
上传时间:	2010-06-29 18:38:15 (UTC+8)
出版者:	中央大學
摘要:	This paper provides the first three-dimensional description of the ionospheric density structure of the Weddell Sea Anomaly (WSA). The WSA is characterized by a nighttime ionospheric density greater than that in daytime in the Weddell Sea region around the Antarctic Peninsula during the southern hemisphere summer. It was first observed by ground-based ionosondes located in the Antarctica back in the 1950s and was further investigated by two-dimensional maps over the oceans using TEC measurements collected by the TOPEX/Poseidon recently. Although these TEC maps have provided two-dimensional views for tracking the time-evolution and spatial coverage of the WSA, the vertical distribution of this peculiar feature is still unavailable. With the vertical ionospheric density profiles observed by the FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC, three-dimensional density structure of the WSA is presented here for the first time. Meanwhile, a similar WSA signature is observed in the northern and eastern hemisphere during June solstice by both the GPS-TEC and the FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC electron density observations. From the observed altitudinal structure of the WSA during 1800-2400 LT and the similar feature occurred in the opposite hemisphere suggest that the southward offset of the magnetic equator with respect to the geographic equator plays a major role for the WSA formation.
關聯:	JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SPACE PHYSICS
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