The ground signatures of the expansion phase during multiple onset substorms

Details The ground signatures of the expansion phase during multiple onset substorms The ground signatures of the expansion phase during multiple onset substorms

Dec 1976

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1976p%26ss...24.1115p&link_type=abstract

Planetary and Space Science, vol. 24, Dec. 1976, p. 1115-1132.

Physics

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Auroral Arcs, Geomagnetism, Magnetic Signatures, Night Sky, Polar Substorms, Auroral Electrojets, Electron Precipitation, Field Aligned Currents, Geomagnetic Pulsations, Ground Stations, Midlatitude Atmosphere, Time Response, Tropical Regions

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The paper examines the signatures of multiple-expansion-phase substorm onsets in night-time magnetograms as well as in recordings of auroral activity and energetic electron precipitation. Individual onsets of Pi2 magnetic pulsations observed at three widely spaced stations are used to define and time each onset accurately in order to distinguish between local variations in bay activity and fully developed substorm onsets; this method is equivalent to defining each new onset in terms of the brightening of an auroral arc and the formation of a westward-travelling surge. It is found that the formation of multiple auroral surges appears to be a fundamental feature of multiple-onset substorms, that each surge seems to be associated with a localized field-aligned current system which moves westward with the surge and perturbs the preexisting current wedge, and that this gives rise to the multiple-onset signatures observed on subauroral and low-latitude magnetograms. Since certain findings contradict existing models of multiple-onset events, an alternative model is proposed which is based on the fundamental role of surge activity and localized current wedges.

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