Computer Science – Numerical Analysis
Scientific paper
Apr 1995
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995jgr...100.5613h&link_type=abstract
Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 100, no. A4, p. 5613-5626
Computer Science
Numerical Analysis
44
Altitude, Earth Magnetosphere, Geomagnetism, Magnetopause, Mathematical Models, Telluric Currents, Geomagnetic Tail, Magnetohydrodynamics, Mapping, Numerical Analysis, Ring Currents, Three Dimensional Models
Scientific paper
A tilt-dependent magnetic field model of the Earth's magnetosphere with variable magnetopause standoff distance is presented. Flexible analytic representations for the ring and cross-tail currents, each composed of the elements derived from the Tsyganenko and Usmanov (1982) model, are combined with the fully shielded vacuum dipole configurations of Voigt (1981). Although the current sheet does not warp in the y-z plane, changes in the shape and position of the neutral sheet with dipole tilt are consistent with both MHD equilibrium theory and observations. In addition, there is good agreement with observed Delta B profiles and the average equatorial contours of magnetic field magnitude. While the dipole field is rigorously shielded within the defined magnetopause, the ring and cross-tails currents are not similarly confined, consequently, the model's region of validity is limited to the inner magnetosphere. The model depends on four independent external parameters. We present a simple but limited method of simulating several substorm related magnetic field changes associated with the disrupion of the near-Earth cross-tail current sheet and collapse of the midnight magnetotail field region. This feature further facilitates the generation of magnetic field configuration time sequences useful in plasma convection simulations of real magnetospheric events.
Hilmer Robert V.
Voigt Gerd-Hannes
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