Ground-based studies of ionospheric convection associated with substorm expansion

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Oct 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994jgr....9919451k&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 99, no. A10, p. 19,451-19,466

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Convection, Earth Ionosphere, Electric Fields, Magnetic Storms, Solar Terrestrial Interactions, Solar Wind, Auroral Electrojets, Electric Potential, Magnetometers, Radar

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The instantaneous patterns of electric fields and currents in the high-latitude ionosphere are deduced by combining satellite and radar measurements of the ionospheric drift velocity, along with ground-based magnetometer observations for October 25, 1981. The period under study was characterized by a relatively stable southward interplanetary magnetic field (IMF), so that the obtained electric field patterns do reflect, in general, the state of sustained and enhanced plasma convection in the magnetosphere. During one of the satellite passes, however, an intense westward electrojet caused by a substorm intruded into the satellite (DE2) and radar (Chatanika, Alaska) field of view in the premidnight sector, providing a unique opportunity to differentiate the enhanced convection and substorm expansion fields. The distributions of the calculated electric potential for the expansion and maximum phases of the substorm show the first clear evidence of the coexistence of two physically different systems in the global convection pattern. The changes in the convection pattern during the substorm indicate that the large-scale potential distributions are indeed of general two-cell patterns representing the southward IMF status, but the night-morning cell has two positive peaks, one in the midnight sector and the other in the late morning hours, corresponding to the substorm expansion and the convection enhancement, respectively.

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