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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 John MacDougall Dept. Electrical and Computer engineering, University of Western Ontario London, Canada. High latitude ionospheric structures:-. Polar Patches Polar cap auroras Poleward Moving Auroral Forms Sporadic-E Spread-F Troughs ?. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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High Latitude Ionospheric Structures

John MacDougall

Dept. Electrical and Computer engineering, University of Western Ontario

London, Canada

High latitude ionospheric structures:-

• Polar Patches

• Polar cap auroras

• Poleward Moving Auroral Forms

• Sporadic-E

• Spread-F

• Troughs

• ?

Polar patches

1996 March 3

Polar patches

Polar cap auroras

Polar cap auroras

Polar cap auroras

Polar cap auroras

Poleward Moving Auroral Forms

Shiokawa et al., JGR 1997

Poleward Moving Auroral Forms

Poleward Moving Auroral Forms

Poleward Moving Auroral Forms

Poleward Moving Auroral Forms

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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