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Thermospheric Neutral Winds Above the Oukaimeden Observatory: Effects of Geomagnetic Activity

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العنوان: Thermospheric Neutral Winds Above the Oukaimeden Observatory: Effects of Geomagnetic Activity
المؤلفون: Loutfi, A., Bounhir, A., Pitout, F., Benkhaldoun, Z., Makela, J. J.
المساهمون: Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
المصدر: ISSN: 2169-9380.
بيانات النشر: HAL CCSD
American Geophysical Union/Wiley
سنة النشر: 2020
المجموعة: Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier: HAL-UPS
مصطلحات موضوعية: observation of the thermosphereic neutral winds, comparison of the FPI with the HWM model, effects of the geomagnetic storms, solar cycle, quiet days, superposed, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]
الوصف: International audience ; In the context of space weather, we investigate the effect of geomagnetic activity on Earth's thermosphere above the Oukaimeden Observatory in Morocco (geographic coordinates: 31.206°N, 7.866°W; magnetic latitude: 22.77°N) over 3 years from 2014 to 2016. The observatory is equipped with a Fabry-Perot interferometer (FPI) that provides measurements of thermospheric wind speed. In this study 41 disturbed nights (with SYM-H ≤ -50 nT, Kp ≥ 5) were identified and analyzed. We have characterized the meridional and zonal winds variability and dependence on the solar cycle, during both quiet and disturbed conditions. We have classified the storm time meridional neutral winds into three types of variation. The first type is characterized by traveling atmospheric disturbance (TAD)-induced circulation: the first TAD coming from the north and the second TAD being transequatorial, coming from the south. This type of storm with TAD-induced circulation accounts for 59% of the cases. The second type exhibits only slight discrepancies between the disturbed and quiet night flows. These cases account for 33% of the cases. The third type is characterized by the transequatorial wind in whole the night. This last type accounts for 8% of the cases. Finally, we apply a superposed epoch analysis method on the FPI data, and the effect of each phase of the geomagnetic storm on the wind flow and vertical total electron content VTEC has been quantified.
نوع الوثيقة: article in journal/newspaper
اللغة: English
Relation: BIBCODE: 2020JGRA.12527383L
DOI: 10.1029/2019JA027383
الاتاحة: https://insu.hal.science/insu-03673137
https://insu.hal.science/insu-03673137v1/document
https://insu.hal.science/insu-03673137v1/file/JGR%20Space%20Physics%20-%202020%20-%20Loutfi%20-%20Thermospheric%20Neutral%20Winds%20Above%20the%20Oukaimeden%20Observatory%20Effects%20of%20Geomagnetic.pdf
https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JA027383
Rights: http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/licences/copyright/ ; info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.909A72D0
قاعدة البيانات: BASE