Physics
Scientific paper
Dec 2002
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002agufmsm71b..05l&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2002, abstract #SM71B-05
Physics
2431 Ionosphere/Magnetosphere Interactions (2736), 2447 Modeling And Forecasting, 2704 Auroral Phenomena (2407), 2736 Magnetosphere/Ionosphere Interactions, 2752 Mhd Waves And Instabilities
Scientific paper
Alfv{é}n wave dynamics become quasi-static in the ionosphere and low-altitude magnetosphere in the ULF regime below 10 mHz and at altitudes less than a few RE when the following two conditions are met: ω L RE << vA (l) and ω l << 1 / μ 0 Σ P. L is the dipole shell parameter, ω is the wave frequency in radians, l represents field-aligned distance above the ionosphere, vA (l) is the local Alfv{é}n speed, and Σ P is the ionospheric Pedersen conductance. In this limit, reactive power stored in Alfv{é}nic fluctuations at high altitude flows quasi-statically into ionospheric Joule heating and low-altitude collisionless dissipation. The combined dissipative effects are described by the electrostatic model of Chiu-Cornwall-Lyons [1980] which captures the transverse wavelength dependence of low-altitude Alfv{é}nic energy deposition. The analysis and results described here 1) correspond to the low-altitude, low-frequency limit of theories for the interaction of an Alfv{é}n wave with the ionosphere [Knudsen et al., 1992], including effects of a low-altitude collisionless dissipation layer [Vogt and Haerendel, 1998], and field line eigenmodes with allowance for finite ionospheric conductivity and realistic parallel inhomogeneity [Allan and Knox, 1979]; 2) reconcile the interpretation of inverted-V precipitation regions as electrostatic potential structures with electromagnetic energy deposition via Alfv{é}n waves at frequencies below 10 mHz; 3) provide criteria for the validity of the Knight current-voltage relation in the ULF regime and its use in global MHD simulations; 4) relate low-altitude satellite measurements of both ``static'' and ULF electric and magnetic fields directly to the ionospheric Pedersen conductivity; and 5) offer a resolution to debates about high-altitude closure of auroral potential structures as O-, U-, or S-potential forms.
Lotko William
Lysak Robert L.
Streltsov Anatoly V.
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