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Converging photospheric vortex flows close to the polarity inversion line of a fully emerged active region
Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
Cristiano M. Wrasse
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil
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Long- and short-period oscillations in the lunar semidiurnal tidal amplitudes in the ionosphere derived from the total electron content were investigated over Brazil from 2011 to 2014. The results showed annual, semiannual and triannual oscillations as the dominant components. Additionally, the most pronounced short-period oscillations were observed between 7 and 11 d, which suggest a possible coupling of the lunar tide and planetary waves.
Oluwakemi Dare-Idowu, Igo Paulino, Cosme A. O. B. Figueiredo, Amauri F. Medeiros, Ricardo A. Buriti, Ana Roberta Paulino, and Cristiano M. Wrasse
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This work presents four events of mesosphere fronts observed on King George Island, Antarctic Peninsula, in the year 2011. The atmospheric background environment was analyzed to investigate the propagation conditions for all cases. To investigate the sources for such cases, satellite images were used. In two cases, we found that strong tropospheric instabilities were potential sources, and in the other two cases, it was not possible to associate them with tropospheric sources.
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Ann. Geophys., 34, 293–301, https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-34-293-2016, https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-34-293-2016, 2016
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Periodic waves have been observed over São João do Cariri during almost one solar cycle. Similarities between the characteristics of these events with observations at other places around the world were noted, primarily the spectral parameters. Most observed waves have appeared during magnetically quiet nights, and the occurrence of those waves followed the solar activity. Due to their characteristics, most of them must have had different generation mechanisms from the Perkins instability.
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This paper reports two consecutive mesospheric bores observed in the airglow emissions (OH and OI5577). Both bores propagated to the east and showed similar spectral characteristics. However, the first one exhibited a dark leading front with several trailing waves behind and progressed into a brighter airglow region. However, the second bore, observed in the OH layer, was comprised of several bright waves propagating into a darker airglow region.
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We describe a technique used to locate and classify critical points in 2-D flow fields at the solar photosphere obtained from the evolution of the line-of-sight magnetic field in a region close to the magnetic polarity inversion line of a fully emerged active region. We apply this technique to locate a particular kind of critical point associated to vortex flows, which are considered important, since they can twist and interweave the foot points of flux tubes and generate magnetic reconnection.
We describe a technique used to locate and classify critical points in 2-D flow fields at the...
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