Kumar, Sushil and Deo, Anil and Ramachandran, Visagaperuman (2009) Nighttime D-region equivalent electron density determined from tweek sferics observed in the South Pacific region. Earth Planets Space, 61 (7). pp. 905-911. ISSN 1880-5981
Full text not available from this repository.Abstract
Atmospherics or sferics that originate from lightning discharges on propagating large distances in the Earth-ionosphere waveguide, particularly at the night, form dispersed sferics called tweeks. Tweeks are novel diagnostic tool to monitor the nighttime D-region ionosphere. Mean equivalent electron density nem at mean tweek reflection heights hm and electron density profile have been estimated using the higher harmonic tweeks recorded in the time between 21-03 hrs LT at Suva (18.2°S, 178.3°E), Fiji, during a period March-December 2006. The values of nem vary from 29-170 cm-3 in the altitude range of about 3.5 km at hm of about 83 km. In terms of usually used exponential electron density profile, the ionospheric reference height and the exponential sharpness factor are calculated to be 83.1 km and 0.64 km-1, respectively. The scale height is calculated to be 1.9 km. Equivalent electron density profile of the nighttime lower ionosphere, using tweek method, shows lower values of electron density by about 20-45% than those obtained from the IRI-2001 model.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QC Physics |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Technology and Environment (FSTE) > School of Engineering and Physics |
| Depositing User: | Ms Neha Harakh |
| Date Deposited: | 27 May 2009 03:44 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Mar 2012 08:58 |
| URI: | http://repository.usp.ac.fj/id/eprint/1472 |
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