Physics
Scientific paper
May 2009
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009angeo..27.1951d&link_type=abstract
Annales Geophysicae, Volume 27, Issue 5, 2009, pp.1951-1960
Physics
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Scientific paper
Using data from WIND spacecraft, we investigated the difference in substorm bulge development during different types of solar wind flow: solar wind recurrent streams (RS), corotating interaction regions (CIR), magnetic clouds (MC), and the region of interaction of magnetic clouds with undisturbed solar wind (Sheath). The RS/CIR and MC/Sheath structures were examined for the periods December 1996-July 1997; January 2000-December 2000; October 2001. All available auroral substorms observed by the Ultra Violet Imager onboard the Polar spacecraft during these periods were studied. It is shown that the largest latitudinal and longitudinal sizes of the auroral bulge expansions are during CIR and Sheath intervals. We found a difference in auroral bulge parameters for MC- and RS-associated substorms. In contrast to substorms associated with RS, the latitudinal size of the auroral bulge during MC is smaller, but longitudinal size is larger. As consequence, the ratio between longitudinal and latitudinal sizes for MC-associated substorms is also larger. We suggest that the latter feature is explained by different configuration of the near-Earth magnetotail during RS and MC.
Biernat Helfried K.
Despirak I. V.
Kozelov Boris V.
Lubchich Andris A.
Yahnin A. G.
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