Physics-based formula representations of high-latitude ionospheric outflows: H+ and O+ densities, flow velocities, and temperatures versus soft electron precipitation, wave-driven transverse heating, and solar zenith angle effects

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作者
Horwitz, J. L. [1 ]
Zeng, W. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Texas Arlington, Dept Phys, Arlington, TX 76019 USA
关键词
ION-CYCLOTRON RESONANCE; F-REGION; PLASMA; MAGNETOSPHERE; ENERGY; ENERGIZATION; DEPENDENCE; DYNAMICS; UPFLOWS; POLAR;
D O I
10.1029/2008JA013595
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
Extensive systematic dynamic fluid kinetic (DyFK) model simulations are conducted to obtain advanced simulation-based formula representations of ionospheric outflow parameters, for possible use by global magnetospheric modelers. Under F-10.7 levels of 142, corresponding to solar medium conditions, we obtain the H+ and O+ outflow densities, flow velocities, and perpendicular and parallel temperatures versus energy fluxes and characteristic energies of soft electron precipitation, wave spectral densities of ion transverse wave heating, and F region level solar zenith angle in the high-latitude auroral region. From the results of hundreds of DyFK simulations of auroral outflows for ranges of each of these driving agents, we depict the H+ and O+ outflow density and flow velocity parameters at 3 R-E altitude at the ends of these 2-h simulation runs in spectrogram form versus various pairs of these influencing parameters. We further approximate these results by various distilled formula representations for the O+ and H+ outflow velocities, densities, and temperatures at 3 R-E altitude, as functions of the above indicated four "driver'' parameters. These formula representations provide insight into the physics of these driven outflows, and may provide a convenient set of tools to set the boundary conditions for ionospheric plasma sources in global magnetospheric simulations.
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