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Page 1: High Latitude Ionospheric Structures John MacDougall Dept. Electrical and Computer engineering,

High Latitude Ionospheric Structures

John MacDougall

Dept. Electrical and Computer engineering, University of Western Ontario

London, Canada

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High latitude ionospheric structures:-

• Polar Patches

• Polar cap auroras

• Poleward Moving Auroral Forms

• Sporadic-E

• Spread-F

• Troughs

• ?

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Polar patches

1996 March 3

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Polar patches

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Polar cap auroras

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Polar cap auroras

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Polar cap auroras

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Polar cap auroras

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Poleward Moving Auroral Forms

Shiokawa et al., JGR 1997

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Poleward Moving Auroral Forms

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Poleward Moving Auroral Forms

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Poleward Moving Auroral Forms

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Poleward Moving Auroral Forms

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Conclusions

• There are many different high latitude structures

• Most can easily be identified by their appearance on fixed frequency recordings

• It is not obvious that we have identified all the different types of structures

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More Polar Patches

By < 0 By > 0

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More Polar Patches

Eureka

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More Polar Patches

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More Polar Patches