High-latitude ionospheric convection patterns dependent on the variable imf orientation

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Sep 1998

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998jastp..60.1343b&link_type=abstract

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Volume 60, Issue 13, p. 1343-1354.

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The magnetospheric magnetic field configuration, created by merging, depends strongly on the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) orientation. There are different types of reconnection: two-dimensional reconnection at a merging line lying within the magnetopause current layer andor within the magnetotail, and three-dimensional reconnection at the magnetic field neutral point located inside the magnetosphere, earthward of the magnetopause. All orientations of the IMF are divided into four sectors. For the first sector reconnection of the Dungey-type occurs; for the second one three-dimensional reconnection takes place at two neutral points inside the magnetosphere; for the third-one neutral point exists inside the magnetosphere, near the northern cusp, and the other is within the southern magnetopause current layer. For the fourth sector one neutral point is located earthward of the southern magnetopause, and the other-within the northern magnetopause current sheet. The high-latitude northern and southern ionospheric convection patterns depend upon the solar wind-magnetosphere coupling type and are different for each sector of IMF-orientation.

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