Magnetospheric-ionospheric convection in an open model of the magnetosphere

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Magnetospheric-ionospheric convection has been calculated for an open model of the magnetosphere with an ellipsoidal magnetopause in an approximation of uniform IMF. It is assumed that only 0.1 part of IMF falls in the magnetosphere as a result of the effect of IMF shielding by the magnetopause. The modeling of convection has been performed for the cases when the IMF B z component is directed southward and the B y component is westward or eastward. A Tsyganenko 96 model has been used as a magnetospheric model. The model calculations are compared with the data on the ion drift in the ionosphere. A certain disagreement between the experimental and calculated data has been found in the pattern of convection on the dayside of the ionosphere for the case of B y >0, which manifested itself in the dimensions of a convection “tongue” and in the position of the convection throat on the dayside. It has been indicated that the convection pattern agrees with the results of observations if the azimuthally inhomogeneous magnetospheric conductivity is taken into account.

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