Variability of Plasmaspheric Rotation Rate

Details Variability of Plasmaspheric Rotation Rate Variability of Plasmaspheric Rotation Rate

May 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008agusmsm23a..02g&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2008, abstract #SM23A-02

Physics

2431 Ionosphere/Magnetosphere Interactions (2736), 2730 Magnetosphere: Inner, 2736 Magnetosphere/Ionosphere Interactions (2431), 2740 Magnetospheric Configuration And Dynamics, 2768 Plasmasphere

Scientific paper

The plasmasphere has been observed to rotate at a rate different than that of the Earth itself. Previous studies such as Burch et al. [2003] have linked plasmaspheric sub-corotation to joule heating of the polar ionosphere during periods of high geomagnetic activity, and have supported it with an individual case study observation. We carry out a statistical survey of plasmaspheric rotation rates over several months of IMAGE EUV data in 2001, correlating the results with geomagnetic indices. An automated cross-correlation routine is used to track azimuthal features such as "notches" over a single pass of the IMAGE satellite, providing an estimate of the plasmasphere's rotation rate. Observed trends and possible causes of the variability of rotation rate are discussed.

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