Collisional Rayleigh-Taylor instability and shear-flow in equatorial Spread-F plasma

dc.contributor.author	Chakrabarti, N.
dc.contributor.author	Lakhina, G.S.
dc.date.accessioned	2015-08-20T05:55:14Z
dc.date.accessioned	2021-02-12T10:30:06Z
dc.date.available	2015-08-20T05:55:14Z
dc.date.available	2021-02-12T10:30:06Z
dc.date.issued	2003
dc.identifier.citation	Annales Geophysicae, v.21, p.1153-1157, 2003, doi: 10.5194/angeo-21-1153-2003	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/242
dc.description.abstract	Collisional Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instability is considered in the bottom side of the equatorial F-region. By a novel nonmodal calculation it is shown that for an applied shear flow in equilibrium, the growth of the instability is considerably reduced. Finite but small amounts of diffusion enhances the stabilization process. The results may be relevant to the observations of long-lived irregularities at the bottom-side of the F-layer.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.subject	Ionosphere	en_US
dc.subject	Ionospheric irregularities	en_US
dc.subject	Equatorial ionosphere	en_US
dc.subject	Plasma waves	en_US
dc.subject	Equatorial F region	en_US
dc.subject	F-layer	en_US
dc.title	Collisional Rayleigh-Taylor instability and shear-flow in equatorial Spread-F plasma	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US
dc.identifier.accession	090728