On the magnetospheric boundary layer and solar wind energy transfer into the magnetosphere

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Sep 1988

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Space Science Reviews (ISSN 0038-6308), vol. 48, no. 3-4, 1988, p. 263-320. Research supported by the Swedish Board for Space Ac

Physics

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Boundary Layer Plasmas, Earth Magnetosphere, Energy Transfer, Solar Terrestrial Interactions, Solar Wind, Cold Plasmas, High Temperature Plasmas, Magnetohydrodynamic Waves, Magnetopause

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The physical mechanism underlying the transfer of energy, mass and momentum from the solar wind into the magnetosphere is presently addressed by a consideration of the energy and mass transfer from a plasma kinetic viewpoint, incorporating a description of the current, which involves the generation of particle kinetic energy by mass transfer. The plasma flow (or pressure) is converted into electrical energy in the boundary-layer interaction region. The boundary layer's persistence and its low-altitude footprint, the dayside cleft/cusp, is held to be strong evidence for this model.

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