Physics
Scientific paper
Oct 1990
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1990georl..17.2019h&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 17, Oct. 1990, p. 2019-2022. Research supported by the Los Alamos National L
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Current Sheets, Geomagnetic Tail, Magnetic Field Reconnection, Magnetohydrodynamics, Three Dimensional Models, Earth Magnetosphere, Electric Fields, Kinetic Energy, Magnetic Fields
Scientific paper
Three-dimensional magnetic reconnection is investigated by means of resistive MHD simulations on the basis of magnetotail models with various magnitudes of the average net cross-tail magnetic field component. Typical quantities such as parallel electric fields, reconnected flux and flow velocities are studied to determine the influence of increasing B(y) values on the fast dynamical evolution of the magnetotail. A cross-tail magnetic field of less than about 10 percent of the maximum lobe field strength, as typically observed, has little influence on the dynamic evolution. The dynamic growth becomes considerably suppressed for a cross-tail field of about 25 percent of the lobe field strength, which is in the maximum observed range.
Birn Joachim
Hesse Michael
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