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Plasma wave heating during extreme electric fields in the high‐latitude E region
Author(s) -
Bahcivan Hasan
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1029/2006gl029236
Subject(s) - electric field , latitude , incoherent scatter , backscatter (email) , convection , computational physics , geophysics , f region , physics , radar , electron , high latitude , electron temperature , plasma , atmospheric sciences , geology , ionosphere , meteorology , geodesy , nuclear physics , telecommunications , quantum mechanics , computer science , wireless
This article presents measurements of electron heating in the high‐latitude E region during rare, extreme convection electric fields (up to 160 mV/m). As inferred from the merged Sondrestrom incoherent scatter spectra measurements, the electron temperature monotonically increases with the electric field reaching 4000+ K, without any indication of saturation, and the radar backscatter power monotonically decreases.