Transpolar voltage and polar cap flux during the substorm cycle and steady convection events

Details Transpolar voltage and polar cap flux during the substorm cycle and steady convection events Transpolar voltage and polar cap flux during the substorm cycle and steady convection events

Jan 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009jgra..11401210l&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 114, Issue A1, CiteID A01210

Physics

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Magnetospheric Physics: Solar Wind/Magnetosphere Interactions, Magnetospheric Physics: Plasma Convection (2463), Magnetospheric Physics: Polar Cap Phenomena, Magnetospheric Physics: Substorms, Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetic Reconnection (7526, 7835)

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Transpolar voltages observed during traversals of the polar cap by the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) F-13 spacecraft during 2001 are analyzed using the expanding-contracting polar cap model of ionospheric convection. Each of the 10,216 passes is classified by its substorm phase or as a steady convection event (SCE) by inspection of the AE indices. For all phases, we detect a contribution to the transpolar voltage by reconnection in both the dayside magnetopause and in the cross-tail current sheet. Detection of the IMF influence is 97% certain during quiet intervals and >99% certain during substorm/SCE growth phases but falls to 75% in substorm expansion phases: It is only 27% during SCEs. Detection of the influence of the nightside voltage is only 19% certain during growth phases, rising during expansion phases to a peak of 96% in recovery phases: During SCEs, it is >99%. The voltage during SCEs is dominated by the nightside, not the dayside, reconnection. On average, substorm expansion phases halt the growth phase rise in polar cap flux rather than reversing it. The main destruction of the excess open flux takes place during the 6- to 10-hour interval after the recovery phase (as seen in AE) and at a rate which is relatively independent of polar cap flux because the NENL has by then retreated to the far tail. The best estimate of the voltage associated with viscous-like transfer of closed field lines into the tail is around 10 kV.

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