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Magnetic local time (MLT) dependence of auroral peak emission height and morphology
Noora Partamies
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Arctic Geophysics, The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS), Longyearbyen, Norway
Birkeland Centre for Space Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
Daniel Whiter
School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Southampton, UK
Kirsti Kauristie
Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland
Stefano Massetti
INAF-IAPS, Institute for Space Astrophysics and Planetology, Rome, Italy
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Short summary
We investigate the local time behaviour of auroral structures and emission height. Data are collected from the Fennoscandian Lapland and Svalbard latitutes from 7 identical auroral all-sky cameras over about 1 solar cycle. The typical peak emission height of the green aurora varies from 110 km on the nightside to about 118 km in the morning over Lapland but stays systematically higher over Svalbard. During fast solar wind, nightside emission heights are 5 km lower than during slow solar wind.
We investigate the local time behaviour of auroral structures and emission height. Data are...