Hemispheric asymmetries in ionospheric electrodynamics during the solar wind void of 11 May 1999

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Dec 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000georl..27.4013k&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 27, Issue 24, p. 4013-4016

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Ionosphere: Current Systems, Ionosphere: Electric Fields, Ionosphere: Ionospheric Dynamics, Ionosphere: Particle Precipitation

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We use the Assimilative Mapping of Ionospheric Electrodynamics (AMIE) procedure to produce composite maps of high-latitude ionospheric parameters for 11 May 1999. On that day there was a near void in the solar wind momentum flux. Yet, focused high-latitude interactions occurred at Earth. Our maps of convection, Joule heating, particle precipitating power and field-aligned current show a striking asymmetry between hemispheres. In the latter three parameters there is at least a five-fold difference in values between the hemispheres. The northern hemisphere polar cap particle precipitation is the strongest we have ever mapped. Strong electrodynamic interactions were focused above 70° north magnetic latitude. In the southern hemisphere only weak, irregular patterns are mapped. We attribute these differences to the strong interplanetary magnetic field spiral configuration, the sunward tilt of the northern hemisphere and the direct beam or ``strahl'' of solar electrons impinging on the northern polar cap during the momentum void.

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