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Personal Author:
Sheeley, N. R. ; Howard, R. A. ; Dandekar, B. S.
Sheeley, N. R. ; Howard, R. A. ; Dandekar, B. S. Less -
Corporate Authors:
World Data Center A for Solar-Terrestrial Physics
NOAA Program & Office:
NESDIS (National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service)
Description:
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.
Content Notes:
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).


Keywords:
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Auroral Electrons Auroras Measurement
Series:
Report UAG ; 78
Document Type:
Technical Report
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