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STP12 Abstracts<br />

Berlin, 12 - 16 July <strong>2010</strong><br />

SCOSTEP Symposium <strong>2010</strong><br />

Meridional winds in the equatorial ionization <strong>an</strong>omaly observed by the Streak mission<br />

Clemmons James , Walterscheid Richard , Christensen Andrew , Bishop Rebecca<br />

The Aerospace Corporation<br />

New <strong>an</strong>alyses of thermospheric measurements from the ionization gauge on the Streak<br />

mission are presented <strong>an</strong>d discussed. These measurements, returned from the dusk bottomside<br />

ionospheric F-layer, show strong signatures in the neutral gas impressed through the action of<br />

the equatorial ionization <strong>an</strong>omaly (EIA). These signatures are interpreted as being due to very<br />

rapid (several hundred meters per second) meridional winds associated with the equatorial ion<br />

fountain at dusk. The winds are shown to be consistent with a picture of the EIA at dusk<br />

developed from DE-2 measurements <strong>an</strong>d discussed as the Equatorial Temperature <strong>an</strong>d Wind<br />

Anomaly. The present measurements show how these winds depend on altitude. Furthermore,<br />

the wind structure exhibits a set of convection rolls that extends to high latitudes <strong>an</strong>d is thus a<br />

form of coupling from low latitude to high latitude.

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