Physics
Scientific paper
Jan 1999
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999georl..26..177y&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 26, Issue 2, p. 177-180
Physics
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Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetotail, Magnetospheric Physics: Plasma Convection, Magnetospheric Physics: Plasma Sheet, Magnetospheric Physics: Storms And Substorms
Scientific paper
During ~18 hours of continuous activity caused by long interval of southward IMF, the INTERBALL/Tail Probe and GEOTAIL spacecraft monitored the plasma sheet in dusk and dawn sectors of the midtail plasma sheet at 25-30 RE. While bursty bulk flows were persistently observed at both spacecraft, there was a systematic difference between the hourly averages of the Earthward flux transport. During a 3-hour interval the average flux transport rate (Ey) on GEOTAIL (dawn plasma sheet) was ~3 times larger than both the average Ey on INTERBALL (dusk plasma sheet), and the cross-tail Ey0 expected for the existing IMF conditions. This implies that the most intense bursty bulk flows tend to be confined within a limited longitudinal sector of the magnetotail (X<-30RE) forming the observed average convection jet feature.
Kokubun Susumu
Mukai Tadashi
Petrukovich A. A.
Sauvaud Jean-Andre
Sergeev Aleksandre V.
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