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08.Ionospheric plasma bubble seeding and development

Ionospheric Equatorial Plasma Bubbles (EPBs) have been the subject of extensive research during the past few decades. The generation, development and temporal and spatial variations of EPBs have been investigated experimentally using a number of different observational techniques and also studied theoretically by numerical simulation. Despite these efforts, there are still many unanswered questions about EPB seeding and development. External forces such as ionospheric gravity waves and solar terminator and/or geomagnetic storms have been considered as possible sources for EPB seeding. Current theories, however, have not been able to explain completely all the observed features in EPB occurrence. The prediction of EPBs, as a part of space weather initiatives, is still a complex subject of investigation.

Edited by: Hisao Takahashi, Fabiano S. Rodrigues, Tatsuhiro Yokoyama

Day-to-day and short-term variabilities in the equatorial plasma bubble/spread F irregularity seeding and development

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Observation of equatorial plasma bubbles by the airglow imager on ISS-IMAP

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A minimum in the latitude variation of spread-F at March equinox

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Daily and seasonal variations in the linear growth rate of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability in the ionosphere obtained with GAIA

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Multi-instrumented observations of the equatorial F-region during June solstice: large-scale wave structures and spread-F

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Daytime F-region irregularity triggered by rocket-induced ionospheric hole over low latitude

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Unseasonal development of post-sunset F-region irregularities over Southeast Asia on 28 July 2014: 1. Forcing from above?

Carter B, Tulasi Ram S, Yizengaw E, Pradipta R, Retterer J, Norman R, Currie J, Groves K, Caton R, Terkildsen M, Yokoyama T, Zhang K

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Effects of the postsunset vertical plasma drift on the generation of equatorial spread F

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A review on the numerical simulation of equatorial plasma bubbles toward scintillation evaluation and forecasting

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