%0 Journal Article
%4 sid.inpe.br/mtc-m21b/2018/03.02.16.57
%2 sid.inpe.br/mtc-m21b/2018/03.02.16.57.53
%@doi 10.1186/s40645-018-0172-y
%@issn 2197-4284
%T Daytime F-region irregularity triggered by rocket-induced ionospheric hole over low latitude
%D 2018
%8 Dec.
%9 journal article
%A Li, Guozhu,
%A Ning, Baiqi,
%A Abdu, Mangalathayil Ali,
%A Wang, Chi,
%A Otsuka, Yuichi,
%A Wang, Weixing,
%A Lei, Jiuhou,
%A Nishioka, Michi,
%A Tsugawa, Takuya,
%A Hu, Lianhuan,
%A Yang, Guotao,
%A Yan, Chunxiao,
%@affiliation Chinese Academy of Sciences
%@affiliation Chinese Academy of Sciences
%@affiliation Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)
%@affiliation Chinese Academy of Sciences
%@affiliation Nagoya University
%@affiliation Chinese Academy of Sciences
%@affiliation University of Science and Technology of China
%@affiliation National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
%@affiliation National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
%@affiliation Chinese Academy of Sciences
%@affiliation National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences
%@affiliation National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences
%@electronicmailaddress gzlee@mail.iggcas.ac.cn
%@electronicmailaddress
%@electronicmailaddress ma.abdu@inpe.br
%B Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
%V 5
%N 1
%P e11
%K Daytime F-region irregularity, Ionospheric hole, Rocket exhaust.
%X Unexpected daytime F-region irregularities following the appearance of an ionospheric hole have been observed over low latitude. The irregularities developed initially above the F-region peak height (~ 360 km) with a thickness of about 30 km and an east-west extension of more than 200 km around 1057 LT and then expanded upward to 500 km altitude behaving like the equatorial spread-F (ESF) irregularities of the nighttime ionosphere. These daytime F-region irregularities cannot be explained on basis of an earlier suggestion that the F-region irregularities observed during daytime are the continuation of the irregularities initially generated on the previous night. Based on the coincidence, both in space and time, with the appearance of an ionospheric hole, which was generated after the passage of a rocket, we conclude that the daytime F-region irregularities must have been artificially generated locally through a manifestation of plasma instability triggered by the rocket exhaust-induced ionospheric hole over low latitude.
%@language en
%3 li_daytime.pdf