edu.ucar.opensky::articles:25372 UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact 2025-12-24T22:45:38.332680 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7mk6hkp https://doi.org/10.5065/j0yy-wf53 https Related Dataset #1 Data for IMF By paper The effects of IMF By on the middle thermosphere during a geomagnetically "quiet" period at solar minimum 2022-05-01T00:00:00Z publication https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7mk6hkp https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JA029816 Cai, Xuguang author Wang, Wenbin author Burns, Alan author Qian, Liying author Eastes, R. W. author UCAR/NCAR - Library publisher Numerical simulations using the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) thermosphere-ionosphere-electrodynamics general circulation model (TIE-GCM) are performed to elucidate the effects of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) on the middle thermosphere composition during a "geomagnetically quiet" period from the day of year (DOY) 110-111 in 2019 (when the Auroral electrojet (AE) index never exceeded 300 nT and the Kp never exceeded 2). In particular, this paper aims to examine how the Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) mission observed daytime thermospheric O and N-2 column density ratio (Sigma O/N-2) depletion at mid-latitudes originated under such a "geomagnetically quiet" condition. A comparison of electric potential, Joule heating rate per unit mass, ion velocity, neutral temperature and winds in the middle thermosphere (similar to 160 km) between real IMF and without the IMF east-west component (B-y) indicates that a B-y dominant condition can enhance their strengths under this "geomagnetically quiet" condition. Consequently, Sigma O/N-2 depletion with a stronger magnitude (30% compared with similar to 8% without B-y) and larger disturbed area was introduced in the post-midnight sector at high-latitudes due to strong and localized upwelling associated with the enhanced Joule heating rate per unit mass. The Sigma O/N-2 depletion was transported equatorward and corotated from local post-midnight to early morning, and was observed by GOLD at middle latitudes during daytime. UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact PDF Text theme Resource Type 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z publication Copyright 2022 American Geophysical Union. None eng geoscientificInformation