Physics
Scientific paper
May 2005
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005agusmsm51b..03p&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2005, abstract #SM51B-03
Physics
2700 Magnetospheric Physics, 2740 Magnetospheric Configuration And Dynamics, 2744 Magnetotail, 2788 Storms And Substorms, 2794 Instruments And Techniques
Scientific paper
The time-sequence of events that occurs prior to onset is a matter of intense interest for determination of the physical mechanism that initiates substorms. The presently-available fleet of magnetospheric spacecraft including ACE, Cluster, Geotail, IMAGE, and Polar offers a capability for simultaneous observation of the tail plasma sheet at radial distances ≤10 RE and ~20 RE with concurrent imaging of auroral luminosities and of energetic neutral atoms from the inner magnetosphere. This combination of observations can provide insight, for examples, by identifying the position of onset with respect to the ring curent, or by searching for precursor beams in the middle magnetotail. In this report we discuss occurrences of substorms during fortuitous conjunctions of the above-mentioned spacecraft that may be good cases for global simulations. We also discuss difficulties associated with this methodology.
Ackerson K. L.
Frank Louis A.
Paterson William R.
Raeder Joachim
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