On the possibility of quasi-static convection in the quiet magnetotail

Details On the possibility of quasi-static convection in the quiet magnetotail On the possibility of quasi-static convection in the quiet magnetotail

Dec 1988

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1988georl..15.1541k&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 15, Dec. 1988, p. 1541-1544.

Physics

66

Convection, Energy Transfer, Geomagnetic Tail, Solar Wind, Space Plasmas, Ion Temperature, Plasma Pressure

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The magnetotail is known to serve as a reservoir of energy transferred into the terrestrial magnetosphere from the solar wind. Some theoretical arguments have suggested that quasi-static adiabatic convection cannot occur throughout the magnetotail because of the structure of the magnetic field. It is shown that in a magnetotail of finite width, downtail pressure gradients depend strongly on the ratio of the potential across half the tail to the ion temperature in the far tail. For pertinent quiet time ratios, a Tsyganenko quiet-time magnetic field model is consistent with steady convection.

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