Characterizing the Spatio-Temporal Response of High Latitude Convection

Abstract:

High latitude convection is a highly variable system in time influenced by multiple processes, presenting a significant challenge when trying to isolate the response to only one of these inputs. We will present a data based method that can isolate systematic variations within the incomplete convection information provided by SuperDARN and DMSP as well as measurements of space weather parameters in time over an 11 year solar cycle. These variations are condensed into a limited set of basis functions with corresponding amplitudes in time that best reproduce the long term data set, in effect producing an estimate of convection at all locations ever measured by SuperDARN or DMSP and at all times over the solar cycle.