Physics
Scientific paper
Aug 1993
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993georl..20.1659g&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 20, no. 15, p. 1659, 1660; Authors' Reply, p. 1661, 1662.
Physics
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Annual Variations, Geomagnetism, Magnetic Storms, Solar Terrestrial Interactions, Interstellar Magnetic Fields, Solar Corona, Stellar Mass Ejection
Scientific paper
It is proposed by Crooker et al. (1992) that for a subgroup of great geomagnetic storms, for which the associated strong southward IMF (B(S)) fields reside in the postshock plasma, preceding the driver gas of coronal mass ejections, such strong B(S) fields result from a 'major increase in the Russell-McPherron polarity effect, through a systematic pattern of compression and draping' of the Archimedean field in the x-y plane. The critics test the scenario proposed by Crooker et al., namely, that the Russell-McPherron polarity effect is a major contribution to the semiannual variable of intense geomagnetic storms. It is found by the critics that in the cases studied there is little difference between the B(S) values as measured in geocentric solar ecliptic and geocentric solar magnetospheric coordinates, and it is concluded that the Russell-McPherron mechanism cannot explain by itself the seasonal dependence of intense storms, for which the variation is the largest. Crooker et al. present arguments to show that the combined preshock and postshock Russell-McPherron effect remains the sole cause of the semiannual variation of great storm occurrence.
Clua de Gonzalez Alicia L.
Gonzalez Walter D.
Tsurutani Bruce T.
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