The magnetospheric boundary layer - Site of plasma, momentum and energy transfer from the magnetosheath into the magnetosphere

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Nov 1976

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1976georl...3..685e&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 3, Nov. 1976, p. 685-688. ERDA-sponsored research.

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Earth Magnetosphere, Energy Transfer, Magnetosheath, Momentum Transfer, Plasma Dynamics, Satellite Observation, Solar Wind, Energy Spectra, Explorer 43 Satellite, Field Aligned Currents, Flow Velocity, Geomagnetic Tail, Magnetic Field Configurations, Magnetohydrodynamic Generators, Plasma Density

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IMP 6 plasma probe and magnetometer observations indicate that solar wind plasma, momentum and energy are imparted to the magnetosphere in the magnetospheric boundary layer. Over much of the dayside surface of the magnetosphere, the boundary layer is on closed magnetic field lines and acts as an MHD generator. Its depolarizing currents, generated by the boundary layer plasma flow, constitute the field-aligned currents that border the polar cap and establish the charge layers that create the dawn-to-dusk polar cap electric field. The depolarizing currents also provide the soft particle fluxes that characterize the cleft precipitation.

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