Physics
Scientific paper
Dec 2001
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001agufmsm31a0745t&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2001, abstract #SM31A-0745
Physics
2708 Current Systems (2409), 2730 Magnetosphere: Inner, 2740 Magnetospheric Configuration And Dynamics, 2764 Plasma Sheet, 2788 Storms And Substorms
Scientific paper
We present the latest results of using the Rice Convection Model coupled to a Magnetofriction equilibrium solver to examine substorm growth and expansion. The coupled model represents a set of partial differential equations that describes the tail and inner plasma sheet and their coupling to the inner magnetosphere and ionosphere. Substorm growth is simulated in the model as a period of constant dawn to dusk electric field across the tail magnetosphere. At the end of the growth phase, the magnetospheric magnetic field is in a highly-stretched and stressed configuration with a magnetic-field minimum in the inner magnetosphere. To simulate substorm expansion phase, we impose a new set of boundary conditions, leading to a collapse of the tail magnetic field. By varying the exact form of the tail-collapse boundary conditions, we have examined the implications of competing substorm expansion phase scenarios.
Birn Joachim
Hesse Matthias
Sazykin Stanislav
Spiro Robert W.
Toffoletto Frank R.
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