Open AccessCoupled model isolates effect of lower atmosphere on ionosphere
Author(s) -
Schultz Colin
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1002/2013eo130027
Subject(s) - ionosphere , earth's magnetic field , atmosphere (unit) , atmospheric sciences , environmental science , atmospheric models , atmospheric model , meteorology , geology , physics , geophysics , magnetic field , quantum mechanics
Day‐to‐day variability in the properties and behavior of the ionosphere, a region of the upper atmosphere, is driven by three main forces: shifts in the solar wind, changes in the Earth's geomagnetic field, and the downstream effects of variability in lower atmospheric layers. According to previous research, ionospheric variability driven by atmospheric process and by geomagnetic fluctuations are roughly equivalent in scale. Attempts to accurately model the effect of lower atmospheric dynamics on the ionosphere, however, have generally been limited by the low temporal resolution of the data used to represent the interactions.