Sentence examples for by the solar terminator from inspiring English sources

We found that the diurnal, seasonal and spectral MS TWPs characteristics are specified by the solar terminator (ST) dynamics.

It is suggested that so great TEC enhancement observed 3 days prior to Wenchuan earthquake could be explained by combined action of seismogenic vertical electric field and IGWs generated by the solar terminator.

Using long-term (1998--2009) total electron content (TEC) measurements from the GPS global network including dense network of GPS sites in USA and Japan, we have obtained the first data regarding the spatio-temporal structure and the statistics of medium-scale traveling wave packets (MS TWPs) excited by the solar terminator (ST).

The evidence is obtained that the electron gas heated by day and cooled by night at the summer hemisphere as compared with the opposite features in the conjugate winter hemisphere testifies on a reversal of plasma fluxes along the magnetic field line by the solar terminator.

Earlier the efficiency of large-scale disturbances in the thermosphere, owing to the dissipation of small-scale IGWs, was studied using as example the model of the disturbances generated by the solar terminator (Karpov and Bessarab, 2008).

As the Moon orbits Earth, different parts of its face are illuminated by the Sun, leading to the lunar phases; the dark part of the face is separated from the light part by the solar terminator.

We restrict the search area to day-time regions only, by computing the solar terminator of each individual day. Figure 2 The Sq source in the form of a current function.

The most significant effect of the meridional electric field is expected near the solar terminator.

The gradient of heating rate is largest in the solar terminator line.

The solid lines in each panel indicate the solar terminator at an altitude of 200 km.

One interpretation could be that this feature was synchronous with the solar terminator.