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TY - JOUR
T1 - Quantification of high latitude electric field variability
AU - Crowley, G.
AU - Hackert, C.L.
N1 - Copyright (2001) American Geophysical Union
PY - 2001/7/15
Y1 - 2001/7/15
N2 - Variability in the high latitude electric field has been identified as a major contributor to global Joule heating. Electric field patterns from the Assimilative Mapping of Ionospheric Electrodynamics (AMIE) procedure are used to characterize the E-field temporal variability over the course of 18 hours. The standard deviation of the E-field magnitude on May 4, 1998 often exceeds the average value of the E-field magnitude. A significant fraction of this variability arises from oscillations with period less than one hour. This confirms that Joule heating calculations based on time-averaged E-fields may significantly under-predict the heating.
AB - Variability in the high latitude electric field has been identified as a major contributor to global Joule heating. Electric field patterns from the Assimilative Mapping of Ionospheric Electrodynamics (AMIE) procedure are used to characterize the E-field temporal variability over the course of 18 hours. The standard deviation of the E-field magnitude on May 4, 1998 often exceeds the average value of the E-field magnitude. A significant fraction of this variability arises from oscillations with period less than one hour. This confirms that Joule heating calculations based on time-averaged E-fields may significantly under-predict the heating.
KW - magnetometer
U2 - 10.1029/2000GL012624
DO - 10.1029/2000GL012624
M3 - Journal article
VL - 28
SP - 2783
EP - 2786
JO - Geophysical Research Letters
JF - Geophysical Research Letters
SN - 0094-8276
IS - 14
ER -