Effect of polar cap patches on the therm
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T.-Z. Ma; R.W. Schunk
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Article
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1997
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Elsevier Science
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English
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## Polar cap patches are regions of enhanced ionization that appear when the interplanetary magnetic field is southward. They are created either in or near the cusp and then convect in an antisunward direction across the dark polar cap at speeds of from 100 m/s to about 2 km/s. The size of these p