C/NOFS measurements of magnetic perturbations in the low-latitude ionosphere during magnetic storms

Details C/NOFS measurements of magnetic perturbations in the low-latitude ionosphere during magnetic storms C/NOFS measurements of magnetic perturbations in the low-latitude ionosphere during magnetic storms

Dec 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011jgra..11612230l&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 116, Issue A12, CiteID A12230

Physics

Ionosphere: Current Systems (2721), Ionosphere: Equatorial Ionosphere, Magnetospheric Physics: Ring Current, Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetic Storms And Substorms (4305, 7954)

Scientific paper

The Vector Electric Field Investigation suite on the C/NOFS satellite includes a fluxgate magnetometer to monitor the Earth's magnetic fields in the low-latitude ionosphere. Measurements yield full magnetic vectors every second over the range of ±45,000 nT with a one-bit resolution of 1.37 nT (16 bit A/D) in each component. The sensor's primary responsibility is to support calculations of both V × B and E × B with greater accuracy than can be obtained using standard magnetic field models. The data also contain information about large-scale current systems that, when analyzed in conjunction with electric field measurements, promise to significantly expand understanding of equatorial electrodynamics. We first compare in situ measurements with the POMME (Potsdam Magnetic Model of the Earth) model to establish in-flight sensor “calibrations” and to compute magnetic residuals. At low latitudes the residuals are predominately products of the storm time ring current. Since C/NOFS provides a complete coverage of all local times every 97 min, magnetic field data allow studies of the temporal evolution and local time variations of storm time ring current. The analysis demonstrates the feasibility of using instrumented spacecraft in low-inclination orbits to extract a timely proxy for the provisional Dst index and to specify the ring current's evolution.

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