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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ANGEO</journal-id>
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<journal-title>Annales Geophysicae</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">ANGEO</abbrev-journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">Ann. Geophys.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">1432-0576</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/angeo-24-1367-2006</article-id>
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<article-title>Local ionospheric electrodynamics associated with neutral wind fields at low latitudes: Kelvin-Helmholtz billows</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>St.-Maurice</surname>
<given-names>J. P.</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Choudhary</surname>
<given-names>R. K.</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Institute of Space and Atmospheric Studies, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>03</day>
<month>07</month>
<year>2006</year>
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<volume>24</volume>
<issue>5</issue>
<fpage>1367</fpage>
<lpage>1374</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2006 J. P. St.-Maurice</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2006</copyright-year>
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<p>The Gadanki radar observation of plasma irregularities bearing
   the signature of Kelvin-Helmholtz billows above 100 km altitude
   raises the question of the electrodynamical mechanism that
   would allow the structures to drift with the neutral wind. We
   show that for locally varying neutral wind fields with the
   right geometry at night, multiple Hall effects in the electron gas
   lead to a situation where ions, electrons, and neutrals move
   together along the component of the wind that
   changes most rapidly in space.  The species must not move
   together along all directions, however. If this were the case
   the plasma would be stable and a radar would be unable to
   observe the wind field. We discuss the stability of the
   plasma itself for Es layers affected by the Kelvin-Helmholtz wind
   field and show that a variety of factors have to be taken into
   account beyond the study of the zeroth order mechanism.</p>
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