Geophysical Control of FTE Solar Wind Dependence

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May 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006agusmsm41d..03w&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2007, abstract #SM41D-03

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5443 Magnetospheres (2756), 2723 Magnetic Reconnection (7526, 7835), 2724 Magnetopause And Boundary Layers, 2784 Solar Wind/Magnetosphere Interactions

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Flux transfer events (FTEs) are transcient/patchy reconnections on the magnetopause which contribute to the coupling of mass, momentum, and energy between solar wind and the Earth's magnetosphere. Our former studies have shown strong control of high-latitude and low-latitude ank FTEs by some solar wind parameters. In addition, we discovered some surprising strong dependence of such control on latitude and magnetopause location. In this study, we used three years of Cluster observations from February 2001 to July 2003 to have a detailed investigation of the dependence of FTE solar wind control on geophysical parameters, including magnetic local time, magnetic latitude, Earth dipole tilt, and relative location on the magnetopause. We found some systematic dependences from this study, which are expected to reject the physics of magnetopause reconnection and FTE dynamics. Based on what we obained from our statistics, we further made a detailed study of the correlations between such dependences and underlying physics, and provided possible explanations to what we have seen from our Cluster FTE statistical results.

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