{"id":681,"date":"2018-08-21T13:09:05","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T20:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chuckrino.com\/?p=681"},"modified":"2019-07-11T21:21:23","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T04:21:23","slug":"equatorial-plasma-bubbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuckrino.com\/?p=681","title":{"rendered":"Equatorial Plasma Bubbles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An enduring challenge in characterizing ionospheric intermediate-scale irregularity structure is generating a three-dimensional model.&nbsp; In-situ measurements provide one-dimensional scans, which must be reconciled with a higher dimensional model.&nbsp; Physics-based three-dimensional realizations of the development of equatorial plasma bubbles have been used for some time, but until recent work by <a href=\"http:\/\/aer.nict.go.jp\/en\/people\/spe_yokoyama.html\">Tatsuhiro Yokoyama<\/a>&nbsp;.&nbsp; Tasuhiro has generously made his high-resolution simulations available for structure characterization.&nbsp; The results are presented in a published <a href=\"https:\/\/chuckrino.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ProgInEarthPSciEPBPaper.pdf\">paper<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The image below shows a perspective view of the three-dimensional structure at a late phase in the development.&nbsp; The stochastic structure is confined to two-dimensional slice planes that intercept the field lines that terminate at low altitudes in opposite hemispheres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/chuckrino.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/AbstractImage.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-720\" width=\"428\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chuckrino.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/AbstractImage.jpg 3876w, https:\/\/chuckrino.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/AbstractImage-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chuckrino.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/AbstractImage-768x495.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chuckrino.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/AbstractImage-1024x660.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 428px) 100vw, 428px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Stochastic structure models typically assume an-isotropic structure in three dimensions.&nbsp; &nbsp;However, at some point, the quasi-deterministic field-aligned structure structure become important, which will be addressed in a later blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The classification in the paper is confined to time and height dependence as measured in slice planes.&nbsp; A graphic examples of the structure development is show in the <a href=\"https:\/\/chuckrino.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/EPB2eq.avi\">movie<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An enduring challenge in characterizing ionospheric intermediate-scale irregularity structure is generating a three-dimensional model.&nbsp; In-situ measurements provide one-dimensional scans, which must be reconciled with a higher dimensional model.&nbsp; Physics-based three-dimensional realizations of the development of equatorial plasma bubbles have been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chuckrino.com\/?p=681\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-results"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckrino.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckrino.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckrino.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckrino.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckrino.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/chuckrino.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":829,"href":"https:\/\/chuckrino.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions\/829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckrino.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckrino.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckrino.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}