Meteorological effects in the ionosphere: A review

E. S. Kazimirovsky and V. D. Kokourov

Solar-Terrestrial Physics Institute, Irkutsk

Abstract

A brief review of one current ionospheric physics problem, the ionosphere interaction with lower atmospheric layers is presented. It is shown that the aeronomy and dynamics of the ionospheric D region, anomalous radio wave absorption in the ionosphere, atmospheric emissions at ionospheric altitudes, occurrence and structure of the sporadic E layer, thermospheric circulation and ionospheric irregularity drift, spread F, wavelike perturbations, and F2 layer global morphology should be studied in conjunction with the thermodynamics of the atmospheric layers situated below. Experimental facts get qualitative explanations based on the idea of propagation from the troposphere and stratosphere into the ionosphere of a wide spectrum of internal atmospheric waves, acoustic, gravity, tidal, and planetary. The interacting characteristics of these waves change depending on atmospheric circulation system peculiarities and on intensity and location of the wave sources.

Figures 5, Tables 0, References 141, Pages 303-320
Received March 2, 1994

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