HR: 11:30h
AN: SA52A-05    [Abstracts]
TI: Ionospheric Storms Climatology, an Oxymoron?
AU: * Araujo-Pradere, E A
EM: eduardo.araujo@noaa.gov
AF: NOAA-SEC and CIRES-Univ. of Colorado, 325 Broadway R/SEC, Boulder, CO 80305 United States
AU: Fuller-Rowell, T J
EM: Tim.Fuller-Rowell@noaa.gov
AF: NOAA-SEC and CIRES-Univ. of Colorado, 325 Broadway R/SEC, Boulder, CO 80305 United States
AB: The physical processes responsible of the ionospheric response during disturbed conditions are diverse, mixed and complex. They include the development of neutral composition bulges, rapid changes in equatorial electrodynamics, the substantial movement of the trough by high latitude processes. The complexity of these interactions makes it difficult to model the ionospheric response to perturbed conditions, but some level of success has been reached recently. We will explore the common repeatable features that appear from storm to storm, the so-called "storm climatology", that are clearly shown in the results of the empirical modeling of the ionospheric foF2 parameter. More recent results from the initial steps toward the empirical modeling of the Total Electron Content show similar features.
DE: 2400 IONOSPHERE
DE: 2435 Ionospheric disturbances
DE: 2443 Midlatitude ionosphere
DE: 2447 Modeling and forecasting
SC: SPA-Aeronomy [SA]
MN: 2005 Joint Assembly