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AN: ED51D-0046    [Abstracts]
TI: An Examination of the Effects of Two Solar Eclipses on the Topside Ionosphere
AU: Zandstra, S
EM: szandstra@cp.tamu-commerce.edu
AF: Texas A&M University-Commerce, Department of Physics P.O. Box 3011, Commerce, TX 75429-3011 United States
AU: * Greiner, B
EM: velocityspike@hotmail.com
AF: Texas A&M University-Commerce, Department of Physics P.O. Box 3011, Commerce, TX 75429-3011 United States
AU: West, K H
EM: Keith\_West@tamu-commerce.edu
AF: Texas A&M University-Commerce, Department of Physics P.O. Box 3011, Commerce, TX 75429-3011 United States
AB: The SIESS package aboard the DMSP spacecraft is ideally suited for in situ measurements of plasma density, composition, and temperature. Solar eclipses perturb the ionosphere by disrupting photoproduction and heating in a relatively small region for a short period of time, potenitally disrupting transport of plasma from one region to another. We use DMSP data to examine the effects on relative ion concentration and temperature of two eclipses that occurred under different solar conditions.
DE: 2415 Equatorial ionosphere
DE: 2435 Ionospheric disturbances
DE: 2481 Topside ionosphere
SC: Education and Human Resourcese [ED]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting