On Vasyliunas's equivalent conductivity formalism

Details On Vasyliunas's equivalent conductivity formalism On Vasyliunas's equivalent conductivity formalism

Dec 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992jgr....9719527p&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 97, no. A12, p. 19,527-19,529.

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Field Aligned Currents, Ionospheric Conductivity, Ionospheric Currents, Magnetic Field Configurations, Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling, Ohms Law, Ionospheric Drift, Magnetohydrodynamics, Plasma Layers, Steady State

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The Vasyliunas's (1972) equivalent conductivity formalism (ECF) for representing the coupling of the ionosphere and the magnetosphere is discussed, and a new, simpler, derivation is presented of the ECF, in which certain of the underlying assumptions and their implications are made transparent. The derivation presented indicates that the only role of the ions in the ECF is to insure quasi-neutrality. It is shown that the ECF is not as robust as usually assumed and that caution must be used to insure that reasonable results are obtained.

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