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Автономизация вузов в Украине как драйвер перехода к образовательной модели медицинского предпринимательского университета
УНИВЕРСИТЕТ 3.0ПРЕДПРИНИМАТЕЛЬСКИЕ КОМПЕТЕНЦИИОБРАЗОВАНИЕ МЕДИЦИНСКОЕСТУДЕНТЫ МЕДИЦИНСКИХ УЧЕБНЫХ ЗАВЕДЕНИЙОБРАЗОВАТЕЛЬНЫЕ МОДЕЛИПРЕДПРИНИМАТЕЛЬСКИЕ УНИВЕРСИТЕТЫУКРАИН
IMF effect on sporadic-E layers at two northern polar cap sites: Part I ? Statistical study
International audienceIn this paper we investigate the relationship between polar cap sporadic-E layers and the direction of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) using a 2-year database from Longyearbyen (75.2 CGM Lat, Svalbard) and Thule (85.4 CGM Lat, Greenland). It is found that the MLT distributions of sporadic-E occurrence are different at the two stations, but both are related to the IMF orientation. This relationship, however, changes from the centre of the polar cap to its border. Layers are more frequent during positive By at both stations. This effect is particularly strong in the central polar cap at Thule, where a weak effect associated with Bz is also observed, with positive Bz correlating with a higher occurrence of Es. Close to the polar cap boundary, at Longyearbyen, the By effect is weaker than at Thule. On the other hand, Bz plays there an equally important role as By, with negative Bz correlating with the Es occurrence. Since Es layers can be created by electric fields at high latitudes, a possible explanation for the observations is that the layers are produced by the polar cap electric field controlled by the IMF. Using electric field estimates calculated by means of the statistical APL convection model from IMF observations, we find that the diurnal distributions of sporadic-E occurrence can generally be explained in terms of the electric field mechanism. However, other factors must be considered to explain why more layers occur during positive than during negative By and why the Bz dependence of layer occurrence in the central polar cap is different from that at the polar cap boundary
EISCAT and Cluster observations in the vicinity of the dynamical polar cap boundary
The dynamics of the polar cap boundary and auroral oval in the nightside ionosphere are studied during late expansion and recovery of a substorm from the region between Tromsø (66.6&deg; cgmLat) and Longyearbyen (75.2&deg; cgmLat) on 27 February 2004 by using the coordinated EISCAT incoherent scatter radar, MIRACLE magnetometer and Cluster satellite measurements. During the late substorm expansion/early recovery phase, the polar cap boundary (PCB) made zig-zag-type motion with amplitude of 2.5&deg; cgmLat and period of about 30 min near magnetic midnight. We suggest that the poleward motions of the PCB were produced by bursts of enhanced reconnection at the near-Earth neutral line (NENL). The subsequent equatorward motions of the PCB would then represent the recovery of the merging line towards the equilibrium state (Cowley and Lockwood, 1992). The observed bursts of enhanced westward electrojet just equatorward of the polar cap boundary during poleward expansions were produced plausibly by particles accelerated in the vicinity of the neutral line and thus lend evidence to the Cowley-Lockwood paradigm. <br><br> During the substorm recovery phase, the footpoints of the Cluster satellites at a geocentric distance of 4.4 <I>R<sub>E</sub></I> mapped in the vicinity of EISCAT measurements. Cluster data indicate that outflow of H<sup>+</sup> and O<sup>+</sup> ions took place within the plasma sheet boundary layer (PSBL) as noted in some earlier studies as well. We show that in this case the PSBL corresponded to a region of enhanced electron temperature in the ionospheric F region. It is suggested that the ion outflow originates from the F region as a result of increased ambipolar diffusion. At higher altitudes, the ions could be further energized by waves, which at Cluster altitudes were observed as BBELF (broad band extra low frequency) fluctuations. <br><br> The four-satellite configuration of Cluster revealed a sudden poleward expansion of the PSBL by 2&deg; during ~5 min. The beginning of the poleward motion of the PCB was associated with an intensification of the downward FAC at the boundary. We suggest that the downward FAC sheet at the PCB is the high-altitude counterpart of the Earthward flowing FAC produced in the vicinity of the magnetotail neutral line by the Hall effect (Sonnerup, 1979) during a short-lived reconnection pulse
Observations of an auroral streamer in a double oval configuration
During the late evening and night of 14 September 2004, the nightside
auroral oval shows a distinct double oval configuration for several hours
after a substorm onset at ~18:45 UT. This structure is observed both
by the IMAGE satellite optical instruments focusing on the Southern
Hemisphere, and by the MIRACLE ground-based instrument network in
Scandinavia. At ~21:17 UT during the recovery phase of the substorm,
an auroral streamer is detected by these instruments and the EISCAT radar,
while simultaneously the Cluster satellites observe a bursty bulk flow in
the conjugate portion of the plasma sheet in the magnetotail. Our combined
data analysis reveals significant differences between the ionospheric
equivalent current signature of this streamer within a double oval
configuration, as compared to previously studied streamer events without
such a configuration. We attribute these differences to the presence of an
additional poleward polarization electric field between the poleward and the
equatorward portions of the double oval, and show with a simple model that
such an assumption can conceptually explain the observations. Further, we
estimate the total current transferred in meridional direction by this
recovery phase streamer to ~80 kA, significantly less than for
previously analysed expansion phase streamer events. Both results indicate
that the development of auroral streamers is dependent on the ambient
background conditions in the magnetosphere-ionosphere system. The auroral
streamer event studied was simultaneously observed in the conjugate Northern
and Southern Hemisphere ionosphere
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