Magnetic field draping at the low-latitude magnetopause

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Sep 1991

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1991jgr....9615779r&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 96, Sept. 1, 1991, p. 15,779-15,787.

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Equatorial Regions, Interplanetary Magnetic Fields, Magnetic Field Configurations, Magnetopause, Tropical Regions, Boundary Value Problems, Computerized Simulation, Earth Magnetosphere, Geomagnetism, Magnetohydrodynamics, Shear Flow

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Magnetohydrodynamic simulations are used to investigate the structure of the low-latitude magnetopause for interplanetary magnetic field conditions with a dominant southward component. The structure is self-consistently calculated as an initial-value problem in which the system is allowed to evolve into a quasi-steady state. All components of the 3D velocity and magnetic field as well as compressibility, resistivity, and viscosity are included in the 2D calculation. The simulation model shows that magnetic field draping can occur at the magnetopause boundary when magnetic merging takes place in the presence of a tangential shear flow. For 'normal' (positive Bx) draping, the higher-latitude portion of the field lines are curved toward the sun on the magnetospheric side of the magnetopause and away from the sun on the magnetosheath side. The thickness of the normal draping structure scales with the viscosity. The field-aligned current system that accompanies normal magnetic draping is consistent with the sense of the region 1 currents that flow into the dayside ionosphere.

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