Physics
Scientific paper
Dec 2005
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005agufmsm31a0399g&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2005, abstract #SM31A-0399
Physics
2736 Magnetosphere/Ionosphere Interactions (2431), 2744 Magnetotail, 2760 Plasma Convection (2463), 2764 Plasma Sheet, 2790 Substorms
Scientific paper
Flux transport in the geomagnetic tail is usually associated with magnetospheric substorms. Bursty bulk flows, for example, have been observed during all substorm phases. In the ionosphere, evidence of flux transport has also been observed during non-substorm intervals, often during extended intervals of northward IMF. In the plasma sheet, flux transport is characterised by regions of enhanced flow velocity in a direction perpendicular to the magnetic field. At the ionospheric footprint of these regions enhancements in the mesoscale electric field are observed which are a result of both the electric field imposed by the magnetosphere and enhancements in conductivity. In the present study we use Cluster observations of the central plasma sheet flows and SuperDARN radar observations of the conjugate ionosphere to investigate the nature of tail 'flux transport events' both locally, and from the larger-scale perspective of their associated ionospheric convection.
Cowley Stan
Grocott Adrian
Reme Henri
Yeoman T.
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