The equatorial latitude of auroral activity during 1972-1977
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The equatorial latitude of auroral activity during 1972-1977

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    World Data Center A for Solar-Terrestrial Physics
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    NESDIS (National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service)
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    The equatorial latitude of auroral activity has been derived from both electron and optical observations with the DMSP satellites. Essentially all of these observations have been used to produce a nearly continuous plot of invariant geomagnetic latitude versus time during the 5-year interval June 1972 - September 1977. This plot has two main characteristics: (1) a diurnal variation of approximately ±5° which is somehow associated with the precession of the Earth's magnetic dipole axis about the Earth's rotation axis and (2) an irregular variation of roughly 5-10° for intervals of one to several days associated with the occurrences of solar flares and coronal holes. With the help of a condensed, Bartels-type display of these measurements, we conclude that (1) modest auroral expansions (to [lambda] ~ °) occur during the main body of high-speed streams from coronal holes and (2) great expansions (to [lambda] < 55°) occur at the leading edge of a high-speed stream or at a flat-produced interplanetary shock.
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    by N.R. Sheeley, Jr. and R.A. Howard and B.S. Dandekar.

    "E.O. Hulbert Center for Space Research, US Naval Research Laboratory."

    "Air Force Geophysics Laboratory."

    "October 1980."

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    Includes bibliographical references (page 8).

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    Report UAG ; 78
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