Mapping of the solar wind electric field on the earth's polar caps

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Jan 1989

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1989jgr....94..329t&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 94, Jan. 1, 1989, p. 329-347.

Physics

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Earth Magnetosphere, Electric Fields, Magnetic Field Configurations, Polar Caps, Solar Terrestrial Interactions, Solar Wind, Boundary Value Problems, Interplanetary Magnetic Fields, Magnetopause

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A quantitative model of a magnetically interconnected (open) magnetosphere is developed as a perturbation of Voight's closed magnetosphere model with a given magnetopause shape. The model is shown to give a reasonable representation of the open magnetosphere configuration and is especially useful in testing the magnetospheric consequences of various merging theories. The convection pattern obtained for southward IMF is in reasonable agreement with observations, especially in the manifestation of a convection 'throat' near noon. For northward IMF, this region of constricted flow is rotated in local time in the direction of the IMF, also in accordance with observations.

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