Occurrence probability and amplitude of equatorial ionospheric irregularities associated with plasma bubbles during low and moderate solar activities (2008-2012)

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Title:	Occurrence probability and amplitude of equatorial ionospheric irregularities associated with plasma bubbles during low and moderate solar activities (2008-2012)
Authors:	劉正彥;Huang, Chao-Song;de La Beaujardiere, O.;Roddy, P. A.;Hunton, D. E.;Liu, J. Y.;Chen, S. P.
Contributors:	地球科學學院太空科學與工程學系
Keywords:	equatorial ionosphere;Ionosphere;ionospheric irregularities;occurrence probability;Plasma;plasma bubbles;Probability;scintillation;Solar activity;Solar physics;Statistical analysis
Date:	2014-02-01
Issue Date:	2026-04-23 11:05:29 (UTC+8)
Publisher:	Wiley-Blackwell;Washington: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Abstract:	摘要： We present a statistical analysis of the occurrence probability of equatorial spread F irregularities measured by the Communication/Navigation Outage Forecasting System satellite during 2008–2012. We use different criteria (plasma density perturbations, ΔN, and relative density perturbations, ∆N/N0) to identify the occurrence of ionospheric irregularities. The purpose of this study is to determine whether the occurrence probability of irregularities is the same for different criteria, whether the patterns of irregularity occurrence vary with solar activity and with local time, and how the patterns of irregularity occurrence are correlated with ionospheric scintillation. It is found that the occurrence probability of irregularities and its variation with local time are significantly different when different identification criteria are used. The occurrence probability based on plasma density perturbations is high in the evening sector and becomes much lower after midnight. In contrast, the occurrence probability based on relative density perturbations is low in the evening sector but becomes very high after midnight in the June solstice. We have also compared the occurrence of ionospheric irregularities with scintillation. The occurrence pattern of the S4 index and its variation with local time are in good agreement with the irregularity occurrence based on plasma density perturbations but are significantly different from those based on relative density perturbations. This study reveals that the occurrence pattern of equatorial ionospheric irregularities varies with local time and that only the occurrence probability of irregularities based on plasma density perturbations is consistent with the occurrence of scintillation at all local times. Key Points New occurrence probability of equatorial irregularities is derived Dependence of the irregularity occurrence on local time is identified The occurrence of plasma irregularities is compared with scintillation 其他題名： J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics 出版者： Washington: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 出版日期： 2014-02 出處： Journal of geophysical research : Space physics (2013 - Present), 2014-02, Vol.119 (2), p.1186-1199 資源來源： Wiley Online Library All Journals 版權： 2014. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved. 識別號： ISSN: 2169-9380 識別號： EISSN: 2169-9402 識別號： DOI: 10.1002/2013JA019212
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