Articles | Volume 39, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-39-455-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-39-455-2021
Regular paper
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17 May 2021
Regular paper |  | 17 May 2021

Ionospheric control of space weather

Osuke Saka

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Interactive discussion

Status: closed

Comment types: AC – author | RC – referee | CC – community | EC – editor | CEC – chief editor | : Report abuse
  • RC1: 'Comment on angeo-2020-92', Anonymous Referee #1, 01 Feb 2021
    • AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Osuke Saka, 05 Feb 2021
    • AC2: 'Reply on RC2', Osuke Saka, 22 Feb 2021
  • RC2: 'Comment on angeo-2020-92', Anonymous Referee #2, 17 Feb 2021
    • AC2: 'Reply on RC2', Osuke Saka, 22 Feb 2021
    • AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Osuke Saka, 05 Feb 2021

Peer review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision
ED: Reconsider after major revisions (further review by editor and referees) (05 Mar 2021) by Ana G. Elias
AR by Osuke Saka on behalf of the Authors (10 Mar 2021)  Author's response    Manuscript
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (11 Mar 2021) by Ana G. Elias
RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (12 Mar 2021)
RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (14 Apr 2021)
ED: Publish as is (14 Apr 2021) by Ana G. Elias
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Short summary
The ionosphere is a partly ionized medium above the atmosphere. Because of its anisotropic properties, the imposed electric fields from the magnetosphere produce space charge. Polarization electric fields induced in the ionosphere by this process generate ion drifts (Pedersen currents) and plasma evaporation along the field lines, thus achieving a quasi-neutral equilibrium of the ionosphere. The evaporation grows as a large-scale parallel potential structure in the magnetosphere.