Motion of Ionospheric Plasma: Results of Observations above Kharkiv in Solar Cycle 24


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The equipment and methodical characteristics of determining the vertical component of the ionospheric plasma motion velocity Vz based on an incoherent scatter radar of Institute of Ionosphere, National Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (Kharkiv), which is the only radar of such type in Central Europe, are described. Based on the radar data, the patterns of altitude and diurnal variations in Vz near the maximum of solar cycle 24 for the typical geophysical conditions (around the summer and winter solstices, the spring and fall equinoxes) at low geomagnetic activity and the specifics of these changes during ionospheric storms are presented. The results of modeling of the dynamic processes in ionospheric plasma under the conditions of the undisturbed ionosphere, including the determination of altitudetime variations in the thermospheric wind velocity, are presented. It has been established that this velocity can significantly differ from the thermospheric wind velocity calculated by the known empirical global models. This difference is likely related to the regional features of thermospheric wind that are not shown in the global models.

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L. Ya. Emel’yanov

Institute of Ionosphere

Author for correspondence.
Email: leonid.ya.emelyanov@gmail.com
Ukraine, Kharkiv

M. V. Lyashenko

Institute of Ionosphere

Email: leonid.ya.emelyanov@gmail.com
Ukraine, Kharkiv

L. F. Chernogor

Institute of Ionosphere; Karazin Kharkiv National University

Email: leonid.ya.emelyanov@gmail.com
Ukraine, Kharkiv; Kharkiv

I. F. Domnin

Institute of Ionosphere

Email: leonid.ya.emelyanov@gmail.com
Ukraine, Kharkiv

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