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2008年太阳活动极小期期间CIR风暴对热层密度变率的影响

Impact of CIR Storms on Thermosphere Density Variability during the Solar Minimum of 2008

Jiuhou Lei, Jeffrey P. Thayer, Wenbin Wang, Robert L. McPherron

摘要:

2008年的太阳活动极小期异常平静,太阳黑子数量处于75年来的最低水平。然而,在这个独特的太阳活动极小期,从近赤道冕洞发出的太阳风高速气流频繁出现,是地球地磁活动周期性的主要原因。这些条件使得地磁活动对同旋相互作用区(CIR)引起的高层大气的预处理太阳极小状态的强迫隔离成为可能。利用CHAMP卫星400 km附近的热层密度观测资料研究了热层密度对太阳风高速气流/CIR的响应。叠加历元结果表明,全球热层密度对高速气流有响应,400 km处密度平均变化75%。中性密度的相对变化在不同纬度具有可比性,但其变异性在高纬度最大。此外,热层密度对高速流的响应夜间比白天大,表明热层对风暴响应的预处理效应。最后,根据STEREO的EUVI观测资料,将与CIR相关的9天和13.5天周期的热层密度变化与中低纬冕洞的空间分布联系起来。

英文摘要:

The solar minimum of 2008 was exceptionally quiet, with sunspot numbers at their lowest in 75 years. During this unique solar minimum epoch, however, solar wind high - speed streams emanating from near-equatorial coronal holes occurred frequently and were the primary contributor to the recurrent geomagnetic activity at Earth. These conditions enabled the isolation of forcing by geomagnetic activity on the preconditioned solar minimum state of the upper atmosphere caused by Corotating Interaction Regions (CIRs). Thermosphere density observations around 400 km from the CHAMP satellite are used to study the thermosphere density response to solar wind high - speed streams/CIRs. Superposed epoch results show that thermosphere density responds to high - speed streams globally, and the density at 400 km changes by 75% on average. The relative changes of neutral density are comparable at different latitudes, although its variability is largest at high latitudes. In addition, the response of thermosphere density to high - speed streams is larger at night than in daytime, indicating the preconditioning effect of the thermosphere response to storms. Finally, the thermosphere density variations at the periods of 9 and 13.5 days associated with CIRs are linked to the spatial distribution of low - middle latitude coronal holes on the basis of the EUVI observations from the STEREO.

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