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COLE1 constructed two models of Joule heating of the upper atmosphere which yielded increases in temperature of the order of 1,000° K in the auroral zone during geomagnetic storms. Cole's theoretical predictions have been confirmed by Jacchia and Slowey2 from the orbital acceleration of Injun III, even as to the approximate size of the predicted effect. However, neither of these investigations provides a detailed resolution of the latitude dependence. Therefore, a simple model is presented here which has been developed at intervals during the past year and a half, independently of the work of Cole and of Jacchia and Slowey, and which gives the detailed dependence of the temperature increase on geomagnetic latitude.
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MOE, K. Dependence on Latitude of Atmospheric Heating during Geomagnetic Storms. Nature 201, 481–483 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/201481b0
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