Field-aligned currents, convection electric fields, and ULF-ELF waves in the cusp

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Apr 1979

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1979jgr....84.1391s&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 84, Apr. 1, 1979, p. 1391-1401. NSF-supported research;

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Convection Currents, Cusps, Extremely Low Radio Frequencies, Field Aligned Currents, Geomagnetism, Interplanetary Magnetic Fields, Ionospheric Currents, Earth Magnetosphere, Electric Fields, Electrostatic Waves, Hawkeye Satellites, Low Altitude, Magnetic Disturbances, Magnetic Measurement, Polar Caps, Southern Hemisphere

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Nearly simultaneous observations from the Triad and Hawkeye satellites over the Southern Hemisphere, at low altitudes near the noon meridian and close to the usual polar cusp latitudes, show that in and near the polar cusp there exist several relationships between field-aligned currents (FACs), convection electric fields, ULF-ELF magnetic noise, broadband electrostatic noise and interplanetary magnetic fields. The most important findings are (1) the FACs directed into the ionosphere in the noon-to-dusk local time sector and directed away from the ionosphere in the noon-to-dawn local time sector and identified as region-1 permanent FACs (Iijima and Potemra, 1976a) and are located equatorward of the regions of antisunward (westward) convection; (2) the observations are consistent with a two-cell convection pattern symmetric in one case (throat positioned at noon) and asymmetric in another (throat located in a sector on the forenoon side in juxtaposition to the region of strong convection on the afternoon side); and (3) fine-structure FACs are responsible for the generation of ULF-ELF noise in the polar cusp.

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