Abstract
The parameters of meridional thermospheric wind oscillations during the propagation of largescale traveling ionospheric disturbances, obtained based on the nighttime observations in the ionospheric F region performed at the Institute of the Ionosphere (Almaty, 76°55′ E, 43°15′ N) in 2000–2007 using a digital ionosonde, have been analyzed. The processing of ionospheric sounding data made it possible to obtain electron density time variations N(t) at fixed altitudes and variations in the altitudes of the F region maximum (h m F) and bottom (h bot F). During the indicated period, 1166 observation sessions were performed, and 581 sessions were characterized by wave activity. Sessions with a relative amplitude of N(t) variations larger than 25% were selected for analysis. The total number of such sessions was 63. The expression for calculating the meridional wind oscillation amplitudes was obtained based on the measured amplitudes of h bot F oscillations. It was indicated that increased amplitudes of thermospheric wind oscillations are obtained when this expression for h m F is used. The diffusion term, which causes increased h m F oscillation amplitudes as compared to the h bot F oscillation amplitudes, was estimated using the regression expression.