Relationship between day-to-day variability of equatorial plasma bubble activity from GPS scintillation and atmospheric properties from Ground-to-topside model of Atmosphere and Ionosphere for Aeronomy (GAIA) assimilation

• Yamamoto, Mamoru

  Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto University

• Otsuka, Yuichi

  Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University

• Jin, Hidekatsu

  National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Koganei

• Miyoshi, Yasunobu

  Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Kyushu University

Abstract

The relationship between day-to-day variability of equatorial plasma bubbles (EPBs) and the neutral atmosphere is studied. This study is based on the previous study in which the GPS scintillation index and the tropospheric cloud-top temperature are used as proxies for EPB activity and atmospheric perturbations, respectively, and a correlation was found between their day-to-day variations. In this paper, we maintained the same GPS scintillation data but substituted the atmospheric data via an assimilation run of the Ground-to-topside model of Atmosphere and Ionosphere for Aeronomy (GAIA). Cross-correlation between the EPB activity and the atmospheric temperature is similar to the results in Ogawa et al. (Earth Planets Space 61:397–410, 2009). The new findings from our study include (1) an enhanced correlation between the EPB activity and the neutral atmosphere is found in horizontally and vertically large areas, (2) the longitudinal disturbance of atmospheric temperature and wind velocity during the EPB-active days is enhanced, and (3) the enhancement of atmospheric disturbance during the EPB-active days shows a similarity to the characteristics of large-scale wave structures in the ionosphere. These results more clearly support couplings between EPBs and the neutral atmosphere.

Journal

• Progress in Earth and Planetary Science

  Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 5 26-, 2018-05-02

  Springer Nature

Keywords

• Equatorial plasma bubble
• GPS scintillation
• GAIA model
• Day-to-day variability
• Atmosphere-ionosphere coupling

Details

• CRID: 1050001338207695232
• NII Article ID: 120006522879
• ISSN: 21974284
• DOI: 10.1186/s40645-018-0184-7
• HANDLE: 2433/234564
• Web Site: http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s40645-018-0184-7.pdf
• Web Site: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40645-018-0184-7/fulltext.html
• Text Lang: en
• Article Type: journal article
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