Theory of Rayleigh‐Taylor bubbles in the equatorial ionosphere
- 1 May 1978
- journal article
- Published by American Geophysical Union (AGU) in Journal of Geophysical Research
- Vol. 83 (A5) , 2066-2070
- https://doi.org/10.1029/ja083ia05p02066
Abstract
We present a theory of rising bubbles (or sharp density depletions) in the equatorial ionosphere. Both ion inertia and ion‐neutral collisions are included. In the collision‐dominated case the bubble velocity is independent of its size, while in the collisionless case it is proportional to the square root of the bubble size.Keywords
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