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Mechanism by which frontal structures in the ionospheric sporadic E layers are formed

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A mechanism by which frontal structures in the ionospheric E region are formed, based on the Ekman-type instability in the neutral component of a weakly ionized ionospheric plasma, when it is important to take into account large-scale wind helicity and neutral component turbulence, is proposed.

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  1. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pyzhevskii per. 3, Moscow, 119017, Russia

    O. G. Chkhetiani

  2. Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Profsoyuznaya ul. 84/32, Moscow, 117997, Russia

    O. G. Chkhetiani & S. L. Shalimov

  3. Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences, Bol’shaya Gruzinskaya ul. 10, Moscow, 123995, Russia

    S. L. Shalimov

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Original Russian Text © O.G. Chkhetiani, S.L. Shalimov, 2013, published in Geomagnetizm i Aeronomiya, 2013, Vol. 53, No. 2, pp. 187–197.

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Chkhetiani, O.G., Shalimov, S.L. Mechanism by which frontal structures in the ionospheric sporadic E layers are formed. Geomagn. Aeron. 53, 177–187 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016793213020059

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