A numerical method to compute Euler potentials for non dipolar magnetic fields

Details A numerical method to compute Euler potentials for non dipolar magnetic fields A numerical method to compute Euler potentials for non dipolar magnetic fields

Mar 1999

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Annales Geophysicae, vol. 17, Issue 3, pp.328-337

Physics

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The magnetospheric magnetic field may be conveniently described by two scalar functions (, ), known as the Euler potentials. They are not uniquely defined, and they may be difficult to derive for configuration more complex than a simple dipole. We propose here a simple numerical method to compute one possible pair (, ). In magnetospheric regions of closed field lines, can be chosen as a function of the tube volume of unit magnetic flux. The method can be applied to a wide class of magnetic fields which describe the magnetospheric domain of closed field lines and the conjugated ionosphere. Here, it is used with the T87 Tsyganenko model. The results coincide with the dipolar potentials at close distances from the Earth. At larger distances, they display an increasing distortion with the radial distance (or the invariant latitude in the ionosphere) and the magnetic activity. In the magnetosphere, the contours of and are stretched towards the nightside. In the ionosphere, they also extend towards the nightside and present major distortions in a narrow ring at the polar cap boundary, which maps distant boundary layers in the magnetosphere.

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