Auroral oval dynamics in relation to solar wind-magnetosphere interaction

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Auroras, Earth Magnetosphere, Solar Wind, Electrokinetics, Electrophotometry, Interplanetary Magnetic Fields, Magnetic Storms

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Photometric observations of dayside auroras are compared with simultaneous measurements of geomagnetic disturbances from meridian chains of stations on the dayside and on the nightside to document the dynamics of dayside auroras in relation to local and global disturbances. It is shown that the dayside auroral zone shifts equatorward and poleward with the growth and decay of the circum-oval/polar cap geomagnetic disturbance and with negative and positive changes in the north-south component of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF). The geomagnetic disturbances associated with the auroral shift is identified as the DP2 mode. The equatorward and poleward movement of the dayside oval is explained in terms of a dayside current system which is intensified by a southward movement of the IMF vector.

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