Physics
Scientific paper
May 1980
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1980p%26ss...28..545a&link_type=abstract
Planetary and Space Science, vol. 28, May 1980, p. 545-547.
Physics
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Earth Magnetosphere, Interplanetary Magnetic Fields, Magnetic Field Configurations, Magnetic Flux, Solar Terrestrial Interactions, Solar Wind Velocity, Coupling, Dynamo Theory
Scientific paper
The power generated by the solar wind-magnetosphere dynamo is proportional to the amount of open magnetic flux. It is difficult to use this fact in determining observationally the dependence of open magnetic flux on the orientation of the interplanetary magnetic field vector. It is shown that, for a simple vacuum superposition of the earth's dipole field and a uniform magnetic field, open magnetic flux is very closely proportional to sin (theta/2) for a wide range of the intensity of the uniform field, where theta denotes the polar angle of the interplanetary magnetic field vector in the Y-Z plane of solar-magnetospheric coordinates.
Ahn Byung-Ho.
Akasofu Syuh-Ichi
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