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- Title
Toward the Reconstruction of Substorm‐Related Dynamical Pattern of the Radiowave Auroral Absorption.
- Authors
Sergeev, V. A.; Shukhtina, M. A.; Stepanov, N. A.; Rogov, D. D.; Nikolaev, A. V.; Spanswick, E.; Donovan, E.; Raita, T.; Kero, A.
- Abstract
In addition to existing empirical models describing the average distributions of energetic electron precipitation into the auroral ionosphere at different activity levels, we develop and test a semiempirical approach to construct dynamical models describing the recurrent features of spatiotemporal development of auroral absorption in the ionosphere during individual substorms. Its key ingredients are (a) usage of linear prediction filter technique to extract from riometer data the response function to the injection of unit magnitude and (b) characterization of injection parameters by midlatitude magnetic variations caused by the substorm current wedge. Using global riometer network we test the method performance for stations in the middle of auroral zone (at corrected geomagnetic latitudes of 65–67°) where generally the absorption amplitude is largest. In this paper we use the midlatitude positive bay index, recently developed by X. Chu and R. McPherron, to drive the model. We evaluate the model performance, discuss the dynamical properties of energetic electron precipitation as revealed by the linear prediction filter response function analyses, and finally, we discuss possible future improvements of this method intended for both science and applications. Key Points: A new approach to reconstruct the substorm dynamics of auroral absorption based on linear prediction filtersCharacterization of injection strength using midlatitude magnetic MPB index to account for multiple injections of different amplitudeResponse functions provide a quantitative model of the growth, propagation, and decay of energetic electron precipitation during a substorm
- Subjects
AURORAL substorms; IONOSPHERE; RADIATION absorption; ELECTRON precipitation; MAGNETIC storms
- Publication
Space Weather: The International Journal of Research & Applications, 2020, Vol 18, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
1539-4956
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1029/2019SW002385