CEDAR: Storm Time Behavior of Electric Fields in the Plasmasphere

由热层中性风发电机产生的源自磁层的电场产生离子漂移，由极轨国防气象卫星项目(DMSP)卫星F15和F13进行采样。2001年和2002年的这些数据是在四个不同的地方时间收集和分析的，用来确定纬向离子漂移作为纬度和磁活动的函数的形态。研究成果是加深了对各种离子传输现象的了解，包括行进电离层扰动(TID)、风暴时间离子密度的增加。此外，通过确定极光电场的低纬度极限及其对磁活动的响应，从本质上研究了磁层与电离层的耦合。数据挖掘、归档和相关分析的任务是由一名女性空气动力学研究生完成的。

Electric fields produced by the thermospheric neutral wind dynamo and originating in the magnetosphere generate ion drifts that are sampled by polar orbiting Defense Meteorological Satellite Project (DMSP) satellites F15 and F13. These data, from the years 2001 and 2002 are assembled and analyzed at four distinct local times and used to determine the morphology of zonal ion drift as functions of latitude and magnetic activity. The research product is improved understanding of a variety of ion-transport phenomena, including traveling ionospheric disturbances (TIDs), storm-time enhancements of ion densities. In addition, the coupling of the magnetosphere to the ionosphere is intrinsically investigated by establishing the low latitude limit to the auroral electric field as well as its response to magnetic activity. The data mining, archiving, and correlative analysis is tasked to a female aeronomy graduate student.