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Article Dans Une Revue Annales Geophysicae Année : 2005

Comparison of the characteristic energy of precipitating electrons derived from ground-based and DMSP satellite data

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Energy maps are important for ionosphere-magnetosphere coupling studies, because quantitative determination of field-aligned currents requires knowledge of the conductances and their spatial gradients. By combining imaging riometer absorption and all-sky auroral optical data it is possible to produce high temporal and spatial resolution maps of the Maxwellian characteristic energy of precipitating electrons within a 240240 common field of view. These data have been calibrated by inverting EISCAT electron density profiles into equivalent energy spectra. In this paper energy maps produced by ground-based instruments (optical and riometer) are compared with DMSP satellite data during geomagnetic conjunctions. For the period 1995-2002, twelve satellite passes over the ground-based instruments' field of view for the cloud-free conditions have been considered. Four of the satellite conjunctions occurred during moderate geomagnetic, steady-state conditions and without any ion precipitation. In these cases with Maxwellian satellite spectra, there is 71% agreement between the characteristic energies derived from the satellite and the ground-based energy map method.
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hal-00317498 , version 1 (18-06-2008)

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M. Ashrafi, M. J. Kosch, F. Honary. Comparison of the characteristic energy of precipitating electrons derived from ground-based and DMSP satellite data. Annales Geophysicae, 2005, 23 (1), pp.135-145. ⟨hal-00317498⟩

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