Statistics – Computation
Scientific paper
Dec 2001
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001agufmsm11d..11d&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2001, abstract #SM11D-11
Statistics
Computation
2724 Magnetopause, Cusp, And Boundary Layers
Scientific paper
We survey the magnetopause crossings observed by Cluster, including those relating to regions adjacent to the cusp, in terms of the structure of the boundary layer and both its location and dynamic response to external conditions. Case studies of a number of crossings are presented in which the nature of the current layer, plasma transport and signatures of magnetic reconnection in the magnetopause boundary layer are investigated with the four-spacecraft data. Careful use of multi-spacecraft techniques which measure the current density and boundary shape and motion, in combination with field and plasma data enhances the determination of processes and local properties. For example, accurate computation of boundary orientation and motion, and deviation from planarity, are possible and the local direction of the magnetopause current can be determined and compared to plasma density and flows. Moreover, determination of the shape of the magnetopause at high latitude, particularly near the cusp indentation, is carried out.
Balogh André
Cargill Peter J.
Dandouras Iannis
Dunlop Malcolm W.
Lavraud Benoit
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