A case study of plasma structure in the dusk sector associated with enhanced magnetospheric convection

Details A case study of plasma structure in the dusk sector associated with enhanced magnetospheric convection A case study of plasma structure in the dusk sector associated with enhanced magnetospheric convection

Feb 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992jgr....97.1157c&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 97, Feb. 1, 1992, p. 1157-1166.

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Convection Currents, Magnetoplasmadynamics, Magnetospheric Instability, Plasmasphere, Diurnal Variations, Polar Substorms, Satellite Observation, Space Plasmas

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Consideration is given to a case study based on a combination of ground whistler and satellite measurements of thermal plasma density which provides additional evidence that the abrupt western edge of the bulge region of the magnetosphere, reported earlier from whistlers, is a real phenomenon. The present data and previous MHD modeling work suggest that this distinctive feature develops during periods of steady or declining substorm activity, when dense plasma previously carried sunward under the influence of enhanced convection activity begins to rotate with the earth at angular velocities that decrease with increasing L value and becomes spirallike in form. Whistler data are used to identify a narrow dense plasma feature, separated from the main plasmasphere and extending sunward into the late afternoon sector at L values near the outer observed limits of the main plasmasphere and extending sunward into the edge of the main bulge, found by both whistler stations to be at about 1800 MLT, appeared to be quasi-stationary in sun-earth coordinates during the prevailing conditions of gradually declining geomagnetic agitation.

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