Rates of mass, momentum, and energy transfer at the magnetopause

Details Rates of mass, momentum, and energy transfer at the magnetopause Rates of mass, momentum, and energy transfer at the magnetopause

Aug 1979

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1979esasp.148..325h&link_type=abstract

In ESA Magnetospheric Boundary Layers p 325-332 (SEE N80-13529 04-42)

Computer Science

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Energy Transfer, Magnetopause, Mass Transfer, Momentum Transfer, Solar Wind, Convection Currents, Dynamic Models, Earth Magnetosphere, Magnetic Anomalies, Magnetic Flux, Solar Terrestrial Interactions

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Empirical estimates of the global rates of transfer of solar wind mass, tangential momentum, and energy at the Earth's magnetopause are presented for comparison against model estimates based on the four principal mechanisms that have been proposed to explain such transfer. The comparisons, although not quite conclusive, strongly favor a model that incorporates some combination of direct magnetic connection and anomalous cross field diffusion. An additional global constraint, the rate at which magnetic flux is cycled through the magnetospheric convection system, strongly suggests that direct magnetic connection plays a significant if not dominant role in the solar wind/magnetosphere interaction.

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