Morphology and causes of the Weddell Sea anomaly |
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| Authors: | A T Karpachev N A Gasilov O A Karpachev |
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| Institution: | 1.Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere, and Radiowave Propagation,Russian Academy of Sciences,Troitsk, Moscow oblast,Russia |
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| Abstract: | The zone of anomalous diurnal variations in foF2, which is characterized by an excess of nighttime foF2 values over daytime ones, has been distinguished in the Southern Hemisphere based on the Intercosmos-19 satellite data.
In English literature, this zone is usually defined as the Weddell Sea anomaly (WSA). The anomaly occupies the longitudes
of 180°–360° E in the Western Hemisphere and the latitudes of 40°–80° S, and the effect is maximal (up to ∼5 MHz) at longitudes
of 255°–315° E and latitudes of 60°–70° S (50°–55° ILAT). The anomaly is observed at all levels of solar activity. The anomaly
formation causes have been considered based on calculations and qualitative analysis. For this purpose, the longitudinal variations
in the ionospheric and thermospheric parameters in the Southern Hemisphere have been analyzed in detail for near-noon and
near-midnight conditions. The analysis shows that the daytime foF2 values are much smaller in the Western Hemisphere than in the Eastern one, and, on the contrary, the nighttime values are
much larger, as a result of which the foF2 diurnal variations are anomalous. Such a character of the longitudinal effect mainly depends on the vertical plasma drift
under the action of the neutral wind and ionization by solar radiation. Other causes have also been considered: the composition
and temperature of the atmosphere, plasma flows from the plasmasphere, electric fields, particle precipitation, and the relationship
to the equatorial anomaly and the main ionospheric trough. |
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