When the highly conducting base layer of plasma disappears from #Space (over Svalbard, Norway), the topside plasma becomes uniquely susceptible to a turbulent drift, affecting GPS signals
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A source or a sink? How the altitude of particle precipitation influence high-latitude electrodynamics
Abstract. From the sum total dissipation of unstable wave energy in geospace, a frequent and efficient channel of dissipation is opened up by particle precipitation. The phenomenon, which is part of a...