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标题：Thermospheric wind variations observed by a Fabry–Perot interferometer at Tromsø, Norway, at substorm onsets
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作者：Heqiucen Xu ; Kazuo Shiokawa ; Shin-ichiro Oyama 等
期刊名称：Earth, Planets and Space
电子版ISSN：1880-5981
出版年度：2019
卷号：71
期号：1
页码：1-13
DOI：10.1186/s40623-019-1072-0
出版社：Springer Verlag
摘要：Energy input from the magnetosphere during substorms can strongly affect the high-latitude thermosphere. The ionospheric current caused by thermospheric wind variations may also provide a feedback to the magnetosphere. In this study, we investigate the characteristics of high-latitude thermospheric wind variations at local substorm onsets at Tromsø, Norway, as well as the possibility of such feedback mechanism. A Fabry–Perot interferometer (FPI) at Tromsø provided wind measurements estimated from the Doppler shift of red-line emission (630.0 nm) of aurora and airglow. We analyzed wind data in 2009 with a time resolution of ~ 13 min. We first carefully identified the onset times of isolated local substorms at Tromsø and extracted four wind measurements from red-line emission. All these events showed increases of eastward components at local substorm onsets. For northward components, these events showed decreases except for those at midnight. The observed wind variations at local substorm onsets were less than 49 m/s. These values are much smaller than the typical plasma convection speed in the auroral zone. We speculate that the ionospheric current caused by thermospheric wind variations at local substorm onsets does not provide strong feedback to the development of substorm expansion phase in the magnetotail. We discuss the possible causes of these wind variations in the context of plasma convection, diurnal tides, and arc-associated electric field.
关键词：Fabry–Perot interferometer; Substorm; Thermosphere