Physics
Scientific paper
Jun 1979
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1979rvgsp..17..626s&link_type=abstract
Reviews of Geophysics and Space Physics, vol. 17, June 1979, p. 626-640.
Physics
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Atmospheric Physics, Birkeland Currents, Earth Magnetosphere, Electric Fields, Electrodynamics, Plasma Dynamics, Atmospheric Electricity, Bibliographies, Convective Flow, Magnetic Storms, Magnetohydrodynamic Flow
Scientific paper
The conception of the electrodynamics of the quiet-time magnetosphere obtained during the last four years of magnetospheric study is presented. Current understandings of the open magnetosphere, convective plasma flows in the plasma sheet, the shielding of the inner magnetosphere from the convective magnetospheric electric field, the space charge produced when injected electrons drift towards dawn and injected ions drift towards dusk, the disruption of the flow of the Birkeland current by plasma instabilities and the shielding of the convective electric field by the dayside magnetopause are discussed. Attention is also given to changes of magnetic field line topology magnetic storms and substorms. Unresolved questions and new tools which may play a role in the further understanding of magnetospheric electrodynamics and the role of the magnetospheric electric field are presented.
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