Meridional ionospheric electric field caused by curvature current in the magnetosphere

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Oct 1983

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1983p%26ss...31.1129c&link_type=abstract

Planetary and Space Science (ISSN 0032-0633), vol. 31, Oct. 1983, p. 1129, 1130.

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Earth Magnetosphere, Ionospheric Currents, Plasma Drift, Birkeland Currents, Curvature, Drift Rate, Magnetic Field Configurations

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The bending of geomagnetic field lines towards the geotail produces a curvature drift of charged particles parallel to the geomagnetic axis. The divergence of the current so produced forms Birkeland current to the ionosphere where a meridional electric field is created. This field would drive ionospheric currents to form a negative magnetic bay in the dawn sector of the auroral zone and a positive one in the dusk sector. Also it would cause a dawn-dusk field across the polar cap.

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