Physics
Scientific paper
Dec 1978
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1978ssrv...22..717p&link_type=abstract
(European Space Agency, ESLAB Symposium on Advances in Magnetospheric Physics with GEOS-1 and ISEE-1 and 2, 13th, Innsbruck, Aus
Physics
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Magnetopause, Plasma Diagnostics, Satellite Observation, Atmospheric Physics, Boundary Layers, Data Reduction, International Sun Earth Explorers, Magnetosheath, Plasma Sheaths
Scientific paper
High-resolution plasma observations are analyzed which were performed during four successive inbound passes of the ISEE 1 and 2 spacecraft. A total of nine magnetopause crossings were made near the subsolar point under widely differing orientations of the interplanetary magnetic field. It is found that (1) large fluctuations that often appear to be temporal in nature characterize the magnetosheath flow near the magnetopause; (2) the plasma density and pressure between about 0.1 and 0.3 earth radius outside the magnetopause often begin to decrease gradually as the magnetopause is approached, in conjunction with an increase in magnetic-field strength; (3) the magnetopause, in cases where it can be well resolved, exhibits fluctuations in density, pressure, and bulk velocity about average magnetosheath values; and (5) the only thick (low-latitude) boundary layer observed was characterized by sharp changes at its inner and outer edges.
Asbridge J. R.
Bame J. Jr. S.
Gosling Jack T.
Haerendel Gerhard
Hones Edward W. Jr.
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