Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Jan 1990
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1990aipc..198..133a&link_type=abstract
IN: Astrophysics in Antarctica (A92-22401 07-89). New York, American Institute of Physics, 1989, p. 133-144.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Polar Regions, Polar Substorms, Solar Terrestrial Interactions, Solar Wind, Space Plasmas, Auroral Zones, Earth Magnetosphere, Energetic Particles, Flux Transfer Events, Imaging Techniques, Ionospheric Currents, Magnetic Field Reconnection, Polar Cusps
Scientific paper
The interaction between the solar wind and the earth is primarily via the earth magnetic field, and the plasma and trapped radiation it contains. The solar wind energy absorbed by the earth system is of the order of 10 exp 11 to 10 exp 12 W, or about 1 percent of the energy incident on the magnetosphere; the magnetosphere stores it in the form of trapped radiation and current systems that distort the earth's magnetic field. About 10 exp 11 W is also transported through the magnetosphere and deposited on the neutral atmosphere during each magnetic substorm. The apparent explosive release of energy during a substorm is the primary means of transporting the solar wind energy to other components of the earth system.
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