Solar cycle variations in equatorial ionospheric zonal electric fields near sunrise  

作　　者：JunJie Chen WenBin Wang JiuHou Lei Tong Dang 

机构地区：[1]Space Exploration Laboratory/School of Earth and Space Sciences,University of Science and Technology of China,Hefei 230026,China [2]Department of Earth Sciences,The University of Hong Kong,Pokfulam,Hong Kong SAR,China [3]Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS)Center for Excellence in Comparative Planetology/CAS Key Laboratory of Geospace Environment/Mengcheng National Geophysical Observatory,University of Science and Technology of China,Hefei 230026,China [4]High Altitude Observatory,National Center for Atmospheric Research,Boulder,CO 80307,USA

出　　处：《Earth and Planetary Physics》2023年第3期378-388,共11页地球与行星物理（英文版）

基　　金：supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 42188101 and 41974181);the B-type Strategic Priority Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS, Grant No. XDB41000000);the Project of Stable Support for Youth Team in Basic Research Field, CAS (Grant No. YSBR-018);the preresearch project on Civil Aerospace Technologies (Grant No. D020105) funded by China’s National Space Administration;the International Partnership Program of CAS (Grant No. 183311KYSB20200003);The National Center for Atmospheric Research is sponsored by the National Science Foundation.

摘　　要：In this study,we investigate the solar cycle dependence of the sunrise ionospheric zonal electric fields at the equator under geomagnetically quiet conditions.Simulations using the Thermosphere–Ionosphere–Electrodynamics General Circulation Model(TIEGCM)reveal that the equatorial eastward electric field at sunrise decreases with the increase in solar activity,independent of longitude,season,and lower atmospheric tides.The solar cycle dependence of the sunrise zonal electric field is mainly related to the zonal wind dynamo.Moreover,this solar cycle dependence of sunrise electric fields at the equator is dominated by the corresponding variation in the F-region dynamo because the response of conductivity and neutral winds near sunrise to increasing solar flux is stronger in the F-region than in the E-region,although the sunrise eastward enhancement of electric fields is mainly driven by the E-region zonal wind dynamo.Specifically,the westward gradient of low-latitude F-region neutral winds near the dawn terminator tends to produce westward electric fields in the equatorial region that are more pronounced at solar maximum,whereas the midlatitude E-region dynamo induces an eastward enhancement of sunrise electric fields at the equator that decreases slightly with increasing solar activity.This study also reveals that the reason the eastward enhancement of equatorial zonal electric fields near dawn and dusk terminators show opposite solar cycle dependence is because of their different generation mechanisms.

关 键 词：IONOSPHERE ELECTRODYNAMICS sunrise enhancement solar cycle dependence 

分 类 号：P352[天文地球—空间物理学]