Computer Science
Scientific paper
Dec 1999
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Thesis (PhD). THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, Source DAI-B 60/06, p. 2579, Dec 1999, 152 pages.
Computer Science
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Scientific paper
Most, if not all, of the early research on impulsive magnetic events at high latitudes focused on first identifying the events in ground magnetic recordings and then examining the solar wind properties in search of a common link between different events. The results of these types of studies were often inconclusive and open to debate. The work presented here attacks the problem from the opposite point of view, namely by identifying changes within the solar wind and then examining the resulting ground magnetic signatures. This is accomplished using a combination of ground-based magnetic measurements from arrays of magnetometers located in Greenland and IMP 8 satellite measurements of the solar wind velocity, density, and magnetic field orientation. The study of solar wind dynamic pressure changes uses data collected by the IMP 8 satellite during 1991 and 1992 and focuses on step changes in dynamic pressure of |Dp|>2 nPa occurring on a timescale of Dt<15 min. It has been observed that the ground response does not consistently conform to existing theoretical models of field-aligned currents generated by changes in dynamic pressure. No explicit dependence on interplanetary magnetic field orientation (IMF) has been found. The relationship between IMF orientation changes and magnetic impulse events is highlighted by a case study of an IMF orientation change occurring on July 24, 1996. The effects of the IMF orientation change are observed in ground magnetometer data, incoherent scatter radar measurements, and auroral ultraviolet emissions. It is believed the ground observations result from the interaction of a hot flow anomaly with the magnetopause. These observations are the first of their kind and provide a mechanism to tie an IMF orientation change into the existing theory that traveling convection vortices result from a deformation of the magnetopause. The study of IMF orientation changes uses data from the IMP 8 satellite collected between 1992 and 1995. We have identified and categorized intervals during which IMF discontinuities are observed and during which the solar wind dynamic pressure changes by less than 2.0 nPa. The occurrence of ground signatures appears to be weakly related to the orientation of the motional electric field relative to the discontinuity.
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