On the sunrise oscillation of the F region in the equatorial ionosphere
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Abstract
This paper shows that, contrary to previous explanations, the apparent undulating motion of the equatorial F region peak at sunrise is produced by photochemistry rather than dynamics. Our study is based on an investigation of the behavior of the early morning ionosphere observed by a Digital Ionosonde at Trivandrum, India. The phenomenon is rooted in the production of new plasma at the upper F region altitudes soon after sunrise. As the peak photoproduction rate moves down in altitude and increases in magnitude the newly formed plasma follows a similar trend. Once the density becomes large enough to be detected by an ionosonde, a jump is observed in the F region peak altitude. The jump is followed by a quick downward motion of the increasingly strong F peak. Chemistry causes the downward motion of the F peak to end near 250 km. Electrodynamics is not responsible for the sunrise undulation, but plays an indirect role in the detection of the sunrise effect by simultaneously lowering during the night the peak height and decreasing the density. When detectable, the remnant plasma introduces a lower peak height that facilitates the observation of the initial increase in peak height, while the lower background density allows the relatively small initial density increase from photoionization to be observed.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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