Coupling of Solar Wind Energy to the Magnetosphere via ULF Waves

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Dec 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003agufmsm32d..01s&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2003, abstract #SM32D-01

Physics

2740 Magnetospheric Configuration And Dynamics, 2752 Mhd Waves And Instabilities, 2784 Solar Wind/Magnetosphere Interactions

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The solar wind flow ultimately provides energy to the magnetosphere through a variety of different processes. One of these energy transfer paths is via the excitation of magnetospheric ULF waves. Recent studies (Kepko et al., 2002; Kepko and Spence, 2003) have identified a subset of global ULF waves (multiple, discrete-frequency <3 mHz), driven directly by density structures in the solar wind. In this paper, we examine this mechanism through model-data comparison. We use the Lyon-Fedder-Mobarry MHD model to simulate the global magnetospheric response under a variety of solar wind ram pressure drivers (both idealized and as observed) and compare these results with observations to explore and quantify such characteristics as coupling efficiency and frequency response.

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