Dynamical property of storm time subauroral rapid flows as a manifestation of complex structures of the plasma pressure in the inner magnetosphere

Details Dynamical property of storm time subauroral rapid flows as a manifestation of complex structures of the plasma pressure in the inner magnetosphere Dynamical property of storm time subauroral rapid flows as a manifestation of complex structures of the plasma pressure in the inner magnetosphere

Jan 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009jgra..11401306e&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 114, Issue A1, CiteID A01306

Physics

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Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetosphere/Ionosphere Interactions (2431), Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetosphere: Inner, Magnetospheric Physics: Ring Current, Ionosphere: Plasma Convection (2760), Ionosphere: Electric Fields (2712)

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During the intense magnetic storm of 15 December 2006, the midlatitude Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN) Hokkaido radar observed a dynamical character of rapid, westward flows at 50-56 magnetic latitude. The simulation that couples the inner magnetosphere and the subauroral ionosphere was performed using a realistic boundary condition of the hot ion distribution determined from four Los Alamos National Laboratory satellites at 6.6 R E . The following results are obtained using the simulation: (1) In general, morphology of the azimuthal component of the simulated ionospheric plasma flow is consistent with that known as the subauroral polarization stream (SAPS), (2) an increase in the hot ion density in the plasma sheet results in the temporal reduction and subsequent intensification of the rapid flow at certain subauroral latitudes with a delay of ~40 min, and (3) influence of the plasma sheet temperature on the rapid flow is not evident. The simulated line-of-sight velocity is compared with that obtained by the SuperDARN Hokkaido radar. Agreement between them is found in terms of the temporal and spatial variations of the rapid flows as well as the flow velocity. It is suggested that the dynamical character of the subauroral plasma flow is a direct manifestation of the plasma pressure distribution in the inner magnetosphere (the ring current) especially during the magnetic storm.

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