电离层Alfven谐振反馈不稳定性研究

本文利用分层(磁层、电离层、大气层)模型,分析了电离层电导率以及磁场方向对电离层Alfven谐振(简称IAR)反馈不稳定性的影响.结果表明:倾斜磁场可以有效改变IAR的参数(谐振频率与增长率),进而改变IAR反馈不稳定性的性能,磁场方向向上时,在电离层电导率较大且不考虑Hall电导率的情况下,磁场倾斜角的减小有利于电离层不稳定性的形成,电离层Hall电导率可以增大IAR反馈不稳定性的增长率,且对于较大的倾角增长率提升较大.     

Alfven波在低纬电离层中的传播研究

Alfven波在低纬地区电离层的传播有其特殊性,一方面,低纬地区同样存在Alfven速度梯度的巨大变化,导致电离层Alfven谐振器(Ionospheric Alfven resonator, IAR)的形成;另一方面,由于在低纬地区磁倾角很小,所以剪切Alfven波在传播的过程中纬度方向跨度很大,不同纬度电离层参数将共同对其产生影响;并且,由于电离层水平分层,故磁力线与电离层不正交.本文选取双流体力学模型,在忽略场向电场的条件下,利用非正交坐标系,结合IRI07模型与MSISE00模型模拟低纬地区Alfven波的传播,得到其反射及耦合特性.结果表明,低纬地区同样存在电离层Alfven谐振现象,由耦合产生的压缩模有向磁赤道方向传播的趋势,夜间电离层状态相对于白天更适合IAR的形成,谐振频率沿磁力线L值增大单调递增.     

基于CARISMA地磁台链观测的IPDP事件的统计分析

亚暴期间磁尾等离子体片离子注入内磁层能够激发电磁离子回旋(EMIC)波.对应于这种EMIC波,地面磁力仪可观测到周期逐渐减小的地磁脉动(IPDP).利用GOES卫星数据,地磁指数和加拿大CARISMA地磁台站的数据,我们研究了IPDP事件的产生与亚暴磁尾注入的关系.同时利用CARISMA地磁台链中的MCMU和MSTK两个台站,从2005年4月到2014年5月期间的观测数据,统计分析了亚暴期间的IPDP事件,研究了IPDP事件的出现率关于季节和磁地方时的分布特征.我们总共获得128个两个台站同时观测的IPDP事件.该类事件关于季节分布的发生率,冬季最小,为13.28%,春季最大,为32.81%,结果表明IPDP事件关于季节分布的发生率受到电离层电导率及亚暴发生率的影响.两个台站同时观测到的IPDP事件最大出现率出现在15—18 MLT(磁地方时),结果表明IPDP事件主要由亚暴期间产生的能量离子注入内磁层,西向漂移遇到等离子体层羽状结构(Plume)区的高密度等离子体所激发.     

基于范阿伦双星EMFISIS观测数据的NWC和NAA人工甚低频台站信号的内磁层全球统计分布

地球表面的人工甚低频台站信号可以穿透电离层泄漏进地球磁层导致内辐射带电子沉降到两极大气.因此研究人工甚低频台站信号的空间全球分布特性对于分析辐射带电子的损失具有重要科学意义.本文使用范阿伦双星从2013年到2018年共计6年的高质量的波动观测数据,统计了 NWC(19.8 kHz)、NAA(24.0 kHz)两个人工VLF台站信号的全球分布,分析了台站信号的电场功率谱密度对地理经纬度、磁壳值L、磁地方时MLT、地磁活动水平的依赖性.结果表明,在内磁层中,人工台站VLF信号主要沿着台站位置对应的磁力线传播,夜侧强度高于日侧,冬季高于夏季.这种日夜和夏冬差异的形成是因为夜侧和冬季的日照强度较弱,电离层电子密度较低,VLF信号较容易穿透电离层进入磁层.此外人工VLF台站信号的全球分布受地磁活动的影响很弱.这些统计观测结果给出了 NWC和NAA两个重要人工VLF台站信号强度的全球分布特征,为进一步分析人工VLF台站信号与地球辐射带电子的波粒相互作用提供了关键信息.     

电离层舒曼共振的空间观测

通过功率谱分析和波阻抗函数计算,本文证实了Aureol 3卫星在电离层高度上(>600km)观测到的极低频(ELF)波场扰动是和舒曼共振相关的电磁振荡.与舒曼共振地面观测相比较,Aureol 3观测到的舒曼共振电场分量具有很好的谐振谱结构,峰值频率和各阶舒曼共振本征频率对应;磁场分量的高阶峰值频率偏离14, 20, 26Hz等舒曼共振本征频率;随着卫星高度的改变,电场与磁场谐振的一阶最大能量峰值并不会发生在同一频率,结合本文分析的数据,分别位于78Hz和10Hz;水平方向的磁场分量更接近南北方向的线极化而不是地球－电离层空腔中的椭圆极化;波阻抗随频率表现出不太规则的准正弦振荡,它会随着频率增加和飞行高度上升呈现减小的趋势.虽然舒曼共振信号和电离层密度梯度间的非线性作用可以解释舒曼共振空间观测的部分特征,但需加入其他机制,如电离层不稳定性,传播模式的耦合,进一步了解电离层高度上舒曼共振各种特征产生的原因.     

中低纬度电离层对太阳风状态的响应

本文讨论了行星际磁场B₂分量变化时内磁层和中低纬度电离层的响应.指出B₂变化引起的磁层大尺度对流电场的变化在一定条件下有可能透入内磁层,并沿磁力线映射到中低纬度电离层,在那里产生电场和电流体系,从而使S_q电流体系发生畸变,并在地面磁场中反映出来.数值计算表明,当△B₂<0时,S_q电流体系的焦点向东和向高纬移动,地面磁场会观测到数伽马的变化.这就为中低纬地磁观测诊断磁层和太阳风状态提供了一种可能性.此外,本文还用上述物理过程解释了赤道地区一些高空物理现象,如B₂倒转时电离层漂移速度的变化,赤道磁场异常以及赤道q型偶现E层的消失等等.     

磁扰期间ULF脉动的场和热等离子的观测

在1982年10月31日1600-1830UT磁扰期间,DE1对ULF脉动进行了观测,地面的观测推测脉动是由太阳风速度和压力的突然增加激发的.在脉动期间0900LT 左右DE1通过了从磁纬-55——20°L～13-4的远地点.观测到的ULF 波是周向振荡的,它的前面是持续了一个多小时的逐渐衰减的长周期压缩波,磁场与电场振荡间的位相关系和计算出的Poynting 通量指出,在外磁层(L>8),DE1观测到含有很强极型分量的传播波,而随后在L<10.3看到的准正弦环型波是沿磁力线的驻波.环型波表现为四个波包,每个波包对应着不同的等离子体分布,在很大的磁层区域内观测到的波周期随L减小.磁壳之间似乎很微弱的相互作用意味着这个源是宽带源.对DEI穿过的磁壳磁力线脚部附近的几个高纬台站的磁变仪资料也进行了检验.地面上的地磁脉动包含许多频率分量,空间看到的最强波在同一条磁场线附近的地面上看到的却不常是最强信号.地面脉动的宽带特征表明,地面台站也纪录到相邻磁力线的振荡.在地面台站看到的主要频率约在2小时内大致保持不变,但与L有关,这表明DEI在空间看到的变化周期显然与L有关而并非随时间的变化.     

地震前后短期地磁扰动_(△H)~(△Z)的异常变化

一、引言短期地磁扰动是指磁暴急始、湾扰与地磁脉动等扰动时间较短的地磁变化。磁扰的源场来自磁层和电离层的电流体系,因而它们在较大范围内可看作均匀分布。但是,由于它们在地球内部所产生的感应磁场与地下电导率分布密切相关,所以,相距很近的两地往往观测到磁扰不一致。这就是说短期地磁扰动可以反映地下电导率的横向不均匀性,目前国内外均已发现了一些电导率异常区。一些作者还研究了短期地磁     

第一次天电哨声及地磁脉动学术讨论会

中国地球物理学会第一次天电哨声及地磁脉动学术讨论会于1984.9.10—9.14在北京举行,来自全国有关的十四个单位二十八名代表参加了会议。 哨声观测是从地面间接探测地球外层空间的手段之一,是空间等离子体的有效的诊断工具。天电哨声地磁脉动的研究,不仅在探索地球磁层结构、研究磁层电离层物理过程中有重要的学术意义;而且     

1990年3月21日磁暴期间的电离层响应

利用美、欧、日等国非相干散射雷达观测的离子速度,高纬地磁站链1 min分辨率H分量及多站地面电离层垂测h'F等多种资料,对高低纬电离层的磁层耦合响应进行事例分析.除常规地磁资料外,极光区两雷达站对F层离子速度的测量是考察高纬电离层对流的很有效手段.本次中强磁暴期间赤道环电流指数Dst的最小值为-136 nT,但其最大的离子速度却超过2500 m/s,双对流圈的西旋则约为30°.从此次事件中极光区两雷达站离子速度的连续观测,得出了物理上合理的电离层对流形态,此图象得到地磁站链记录的有力支持.本事例的中低纬电离层响应再次确认了磁层扰动从高纬向中低纬穿透的事实.此外,Arecibo非相干散射雷达站资料又进一步证明:在同一经度链附近,磁暴期夜间电离层垂测h'F的多站突增现象是东向扰动电场从高纬穿透到中低纬,再通过E×H垂直向上的等离子漂移,使F层底部上升的结果.本文用高、低纬台站的多种观测资料较好地分析了该典型电离层物理现象.     

Magnetic Pulsations: Their Sources and Relation to Solar Wind and Geomagnetic Activity

Ultra low frequency (ULF) waves incident on the Earth are produced by processes in the magnetosphere and solar wind. These processes produce a wide variety of ULF hydromagnetic wave types that are classified on the ground as either Pi or Pc pulsations (irregular or continuous). Waves of different frequencies and polarizations originate in different regions of the magnetosphere. The location of the projections of these regions onto the Earth depends on the solar wind dynamic pressure and magnetic field. The occurrence of various waves also depends on conditions in the solar wind and in the magnetosphere. Changes in orientation of the interplanetary magnetic field or an increase in solar wind velocity can have dramatic effects on the type of waves seen at a particular location on the Earth. Similarly, the occurrence of a magnetospheric substorm or magnetic storm will affect which waves are seen. The magnetosphere is a resonant cavity and waveguide for waves that either originate within or propagate through the system. These cavities respond to broadband sources by resonating at discrete frequencies. These cavity modes couple to field line resonances that drive currents in the ionosphere. These currents reradiate the energy as electromagnetic waves that propagate to the ground. Because these ionospheric currents are localized in latitude there are very rapid variations in wave phase at the Earth’s surface. Thus it is almost never correct to assume that plane ULF waves are incident on the Earth from outer space. The properties of ULF waves seen at the ground contain information about the processes that generate them and the regions through which they have propagated. The properties also depend on the conductivity of the Earth underneath the observer. Information about the state of the solar wind and the magnetosphere distributed by the NOAA Space Disturbance Forecast Center can be used to help predict when certain types and frequencies of waves will be observed. The study of ULF waves is a very active field of space research and much has yet to be learned about the processes that generate these waves.     

High-latitude HF Doppler observations of ULF waves: 2. Waves with small spatial scale sizes

The DOPE (Doppler Pulsation Experiment) HF Doppler sounder located near Tromsø, Norway (geographic: 69.6°N 19.2°E; L = 6.3) is deployed to observe signatures, in the high-latitude ionosphere, of magnetospheric ULF waves. A type of wave has been identified which exhibits no simultaneous ground magnetic signature. They can be subdivided into two classes which occur in the dawn and dusk local time sectors respectively. They generally have frequencies greater than the resonance fundamentals of local field lines. It is suggested that these may be the signatures of high-m ULF waves where the ground magnetic signature has been strongly attenuated as a result of the scale size of the waves. The dawn population demonstrate similarities to a type of magnetospheric wave known as giant (Pg) pulsations which tend to be resonant at higher harmonics on magnetic field lines. In contrast, the waves occurring in the dusk sector are believed to be related to the storm-time Pc5s previously reported in VHF radar data. Dst measurements support these observations by indicating that the dawn and dusk classes of waves occur respectively during geomagnetically quiet and more active intervals.     

Spatial field structure and polarization of geomagnetic pulsations in conjugate areas

The ultra-low-frequency (ULF) geomagnetic pulsations observed at two nearly conjugate mid-latitude sites are examined to study their spatial structure and polarization, and learn about the role of ionospheric conductivity in forming their ground signatures. The data of 1999–2002 from Antarctica and New England (L of 2.4) are compared with the numerical results obtained in a simple plane model of ULF wave propagation through the ionosphere and atmosphere. The multi-layered model environment includes an anisotropic and parametrically time-dependent ionosphere, a uniform magnetosphere and a conducting Earth, all placed in a tilted geomagnetic field. The measured diurnal and seasonal variations in the orientation angle of the polarization ellipse are interpreted as effects of hydromagnetic wave propagation through the ionosphere and conversion to an electromagnetic field below. Essentially, the phase, amplitude and polarization of ULF waves observed at the ground are controlled by the wave's spatial structure in the magnetosphere and ionospheric transverse conductivities. The differences shown by the characteristics of simultaneous pulsations in conjugate areas arise mainly from different local ionospheric conditions, while the source waves of the pulsations are common to both sites.     

Earthquake impact on ionospheric Alfvén resonances

According to BGO data, it is discovered that ionospheric Alfvén resonances (IARs) observed as geomagnetic pulsations at frequencies of a few hertz arise in response to seismic events. The paper presents examples showing how seismic waves affect the IAR regime. Possible mechanisms of this effect are discussed.     

2007年3月3日长时间持续Pc5 ULF波的多点联合观测分析

2007年3月3日位于磁层昏侧THEMIS的5颗卫星、同步轨道晨侧和午前的GOES 3颗卫星和地面地磁台站同时观测到了持续近4 h的Pc5 ULF波.我们用交叉小波相关分析计算脉动的传播速度,用MVA分析求解脉动的传播方向,然后结合两者的计算结果获得了Pc5相速度矢量信息.THEMIS卫星观测到Pc5具有压缩特性,且向阳传播,速度约在6~20 km/s左右,相比于磁层中阿尔芬速度(1000 km/s)较低.这些Pc5 ULF波动可能产生于磁尾或磁层内部不稳定性.GOES 3颗卫星观测到不同情况的Pc5 ULF波,极向模占主要成分,且具有波包结构,具有阿尔芬驻波特性,可能产生于K-H(Kelvin-Helmholtz)不稳定性.地面台站观测到ULF波扰动幅度随纬度升高而增强,Pc5脉动在地理纬度60°附近达到最大值, Dumont durville台站观测到的脉动与THEMIS观测到波形有很好的相似性.     

ULF wave occurrence statistics in a high-latitude HF Doppler sounder

Ultra low frequency (ULF) wave activity in the high-latitude ionosphere has been observed by a high frequency (HF) Doppler sounder located at Tromsø, Norway (69.71°N, 19.2°E geographic coordinates). A statistical study of the occurrence of these waves has been undertaken from data collected between 1979 and 1984. The diurnal, seasonal, solar cycle and geomagnetic activity variations in occurrence have been investigated. The findings demonstrate that the ability of the sounder to detect ULF wave signatures maximises at the equinoxes and that there is a peak in occurrence in the morning sector. The occurrence rate is fairly insensitive to changes associated with the solar cycle but increases with the level of geomagnetic activity. As a result, it has been possible to characterise the way in which prevailing ionospheric and magnetospheric conditions affect such observations of ULF waves.     

Dynamics of the large-scale ULF electromagnetic wave structures in the ionosphere

The present article displays the results of theoretical investigation of the planetary ultra-low-frequency (ULF) electromagnetic wave structure, generation and propagation dynamics in the dissipative ionosphere. These waves are stipulated by a spatial inhomogeneous geomagnetic field. The waves propagate in different ionospheric layers along the parallels to the east as well as to the west and their frequencies vary in the range of (10–10⁻⁶) s⁻¹ with a wavelength of order 10³ km. The fast disturbances are associated with oscillations of the ionospheric electrons frozen in the geomagnetic field. The large-scale waves are weakly damped. They generate the geomagnetic field adding up to several tens of nanotesla (nT) near the Earth's surface. It is prescribed that the planetary ULF electromagnetic waves preceding their nonlinear interaction with the local shear winds can self-localize in the form of nonlinear long-living solitary vortices, moving along the latitude circles westward as well as eastward with a velocity different from the phase velocity of the corresponding linear waves. The vortex structures transfer the trapped particles of medium, as well as energy and heat. That is why such nonlinear vortex structures can be the structural elements of the ionospheric strong macro-turbulences.     

Excitation of Alfvén waves and vortices in the ionospheric Alfvén resonator by modulated powerful radio waves

A review of the artificial excitation of Alfvén waves and vortices in the ionospheric Alfvén resonator (IAR) is presented. In the framework of simplified models of the IAR and the Alfvén vortex instability, we discuss the main physical phenomena arising under the periodic heating of the ionosphere by a powerful HF radio signal with a modulation frequency F which lies in the range of short-period geomagnetic pulsations (F = 0.1–10 Hz). The amplitudes, frequency spectra, and polarization characteristics of artificial pulsations on the ground are found, and a brief comparison with experimental data is made. The Alfvén vortex instability in the IAR is analysed from the point of view of its artificial triggering. Two ways of such a triggering are discussed. The first suggests the use of two spaced transmitter antenna which produce an ionospheric current being in resonance with Alfvén vortices. Existing heating facilities are suitable for this experiment. The second method is based on the change of macroscopic parameters of the ionosphere, such as the conductivity in the instability region. This method is simple, but requires more powerful heaters.     

关于地磁场超低频脉动(ULF)的研究

本文是关于地磁场超低频脉动研究的综述,内容包括：（1）历史和内容提要;（2）脉动分类的探究;（3）关于“四多”（多观测仪器、多卫星和飞船、多地面和网络、多分析方法）;（4）其它行星ULF波的探求.     

Observations of Pc 3–4 and Pi 2 geomagnetic pulsations in the low-latitude ionosphere

Day-time Pc 3–4 (≃5–60 mHz) and night-time Pi 2 (≃5–20 mHz) ULF waves propagating down through the ionosphere can cause oscillations in the Doppler shift of HF radio transmissions that are correlated with the magnetic pulsations recorded on the ground. In order to examine properties of these correlated signals, we conducted a joint HF Doppler/magnetometer experiment for two six-month intervals at a location near L = 1.8. The magnetic pulsations were best correlated with ionospheric oscillations from near the F region peak. The Doppler oscillations were in phase at two different altitudes, and their amplitude increased in proportion to the radio sounding frequency. The same results were obtained for the O- and X-mode radio signals. A surprising finding was a constant phase difference between the pulsations in the ionosphere and on the ground for all frequencies below the local field line resonance frequency, independent of season or local time. These observations have been compared with theoretical predictions of the amplitude and phase of ionospheric Doppler oscillations driven by downgoing Alfvén mode waves. Our results agree with these predictions at or very near the field line resonance frequency but not at other frequencies. We conclude that the majority of the observations, which are for pulsations below the resonant frequency, are associated with downgoing fast mode waves, and models of the wave-ionosphere interaction need to be modified accordingly.