edu.ucar.opensky::articles:26546 UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact 2025-12-24T19:26:02.138545 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7rb78nw https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7885901 https Related Dataset #1 SAMI3/WACCM-X Modeling of the Development of an Equatorial Plasma Bubble during a Midnight Temperature Maximum Modeling the development of an equatorial plasma bubble during a midnight temperature maximum with SAMI3/WACCM-X 2023-08-16T00:00:00Z publication https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7rb78nw https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL104388 Huba, J. D. author Liu, Hanli author McInerney, Joseph author UCAR/NCAR - Library publisher We report results from a self-consistent global simulation model in which a large-scale equatorial plasma bubble (EPB) forms during a midnight temperature maximum (MTM). The global model comprises the ionospheric code SAMI3 and the atmosphere/thermosphere code WACCM-X. We consider solar minimum conditions for the month of August. We show that an EPB forms during an MTM in the Pacific sector and is caused by equatorward neutral wind flows. Although this is consistent with the theoretical result that a meridional neutral wind (V) with a negative gradient ( partial differential V/ partial differential theta; 0) is a destabilizing influence [Huba Krall, 2013, ] (where a northward meridional neutral wind V is positive and theta; is the latitude and increases in the northward direction), we find that the primary cause of the EPB is the large decrease in the Pedersen conductance caused by the equatorward winds. 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 author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. None eng geoscientificInformation