Physics
Scientific paper
Sep 1993
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993jgr....9815343p&link_type=abstract
Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 98, no. A9, p. 15,343-15,354.
Physics
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Earth Magnetosphere, Magnetic Field Configurations, Magnetic Flux, Data Processing, Magnetic Measurement, Mathematical Models
Scientific paper
The distribution of the average north-south magnetic field component Bz in the vicinity of the neutral sheet has been investigated. This component is crucial for mappings between the nightside polar ionosphere and the equatorial magnetosphere. Data sets consisting of about 0.5 R(E) averages of magnetic field observations by the IMP/HEOS and ISEE spacecraft have been compared to the field predicted by the Tsyganenko (1987, 1989) models T87 and T89. It was found that both T87 and T89 underestimate Bz in the near tail region by as much as a factor of 2. Modified versions of the T87 model, incorporating plasma sheet warping, were obtained by fitting the model parameters via nonlinear least squares to the ISEE data set and yielded Bz values in agreement with the ISEE data. The study reveals an enormous scatter among the observed baseline values of Bz (on a time scale of 10-20 min), as well as intrinsic biases imposed by the mathematical structure of tail models, and these two factors (especially the first one) greatly limit the accuracy of model predictions of tail Bz.
Peredo Mauricio
Stern David P.
Tsyganenko Nikolaj A.
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