Articles | Volume 15, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00585-997-0300-2
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00585-997-0300-2
31 Mar 1997
31 Mar 1997

Ionospheric storm effects in the nighttime E region caused by neutralized ring current particles

R. Bauske, S. Noël, and G. W. Prölss

Abstract. During magnetic storms an anomalous increase in the ionization density of the nighttime E region is observed at low and middle latitudes. It has been suggested that this effect is caused by the precipitation of neutralized ring current particles. Here a coupled ring current decay-ionosphere model is used to confirm the validity of this explanation.