All-sky imager observations of the latitudinal extent and zonal motion of magnetically conjugate 630.0 nm airglow depletions

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630.0 nm all-sky imaging data are used to detect airglow depletions associated with equatorial spread F. Pairs of imagers located at geomagnetically conjugate locations in the American sector at low and mid-latitudes provide information on the occurrence rate and zonal motion of airglow depletions. Airglow depletions are seen extending to magnetic latitudes as high as 25°. An asymmetric extension is observed with structures in the northern hemisphere reaching higher latitudes. By tracking the zonal motion of airglow depletions, zonal plasma drifts in the thermosphere can be inferred and their simultaneous behavior in both hemispheres investigated. Case studies using El Leoncito and Mercedes imagers in the southern hemisphere, and the respective magnetically conjugate imagers at Villa de Leyva and Arecibo, provide consistent evidence of the influence of the South Atlantic Magnetic Anomaly on the dynamics and characteristics of the thermosphere-ionosphere system at low and mid-latitudes.

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Martinis, C., Hickey, D., Wroten, J., Baumgardner, J., Macinnis, R., Sullivan, C., & Padilla, S. (2020). All-sky imager observations of the latitudinal extent and zonal motion of magnetically conjugate 630.0 nm airglow depletions. Atmosphere, 11(6). https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos11060642

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