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... The equatorial region is comparatively well o€ because of the incoherent and coherent radars at Jicamarca, Trivandrum, and Kwajalein, the rocket ranges in Guyana, Brazil and India, and several optical observing ... See full document

... ionospheric F-region plasma ...the F-layer in the post- sunset period, in conjunction with gravity wave activity at mesospheric heights, resulted in generation of very strong plasma bubble ... See full document

... the F-region bottom altitude rises beyond 300 ...the F-region at several radar frequencies with high time and height ...F2 layer during several days, chosen as representative of magnetically quiet ... See full document

... events, the storm was in progress on 22 days. Some of the events were observed on the days immediately following the storm. Of course, during the low sunspot years a signi®cant number of cases of No-E s -q was ... See full document

... the layer peak are quite short, we neglect here the delay in the rising fountain ...our equatorial zone from early March until ...high equatorial crest and trough abundance over the ten months of ... See full document

... bottomside F region from the quarter-hourly ionograms using the POLAN algorithm of Titheridge (1985) ...the F-layer in the postsunset period at Fortaleza in consonance with the recovery phase of the ... See full document

... and equatorial latitude. But the near temporally correlated change in the F layer in the European sector between 1100 and 1500 UT con®rms the signature of this event which is likely to be produced by ... See full document

... 4 Conclusion I proposed a method to derive a realistic model for the global two-dimensional ionospheric layer conductivity after considering the e€ect of the meridional current system on the equivalent, ... See full document

... boundary layer which is required to improve agreement with ...the equatorial b-plane approximation in the theoretical treatment (as given by C92) can allow an arti®cial generation of Rossby waves at higher ... See full document

... 3 Results 3.1 Overall patterns of NmF2 at noon Figure 5 shows the global distributions of NmF2 in December, March and June. The ®rst thing to notice is the geomagnetic alignment: the contours tend to follow the ... See full document

... 3 Experiments The free wave solutions generated by the re¯ection of a baroclinic Kelvin wave at the eastern Paci®c and Atlantic Ocean boundaries is investigated using the numerical model, outlined already with one ... See full document

... ’ F/Δ t measurements truly represent the bulk motion of the F-region plasma, and if they were made simultaneously and in the same location as the V z F measurements, those pairs of values should all ... See full document

... The EISCAT UHF radar with its transmitter and receiver at Troms (Norway, 69.59  N, 19.23  E) and remote receivers at SodankylaÈ (Finland, 67.36  N, 26.63  E) and Kiruna (Sweden, 67.86  N, 20.44  E) mea- sured the ... See full document

... 4. Chained Puzzles 4.1. The Client Puzzle Algorithm In the midst of a DDoS attack, the efficiency of the puzzle algorithm is very important. The cost of verifying a puzzle solution must be orders of magnitude ... See full document

... in equatorial and low latitude has been ...known, equatorial electrojet belt was again established in India at Kodaikanal in 1902 by the Survey of India and it continued operation till ... See full document

... The equatorial region (+/- 2 ◦ in latitude) differs from the mid-latitude regions in that there is the presence of strong zonal jets, known as equatorial deep ...currents. Equatorial zonal jets are ... See full document

... Received: 20 January 1998 / Revised: 27 May 1998 / Accepted: 9 June 1998 Abstract. Acoustic tomography is presented as a tech- nique for remote monitoring of meteorological quanti- ties. This method and a special ... See full document

... ([email protected]) related to these studies and has important implications for trans-ionospheric communications. Adverse effects of iono- spheric storms on sophisticated and advanced ground-based and space-borne systems ... See full document

... the equatorial electrojet parameters Following Fambitakoye and Mayaud (1976a), the equatorial electrojet is considered as a current ribbon, ¯owing eastward along the geomagnetic equator, at an altitude h ˆ ... See full document

... At F-region altitudes the `fast' AGW has the largest amplitude, and when northward propagating and southward propagating modes inter- fere at the equator, the TID (as parameterised by the fractional change in the ... See full document