Physics
Scientific paper
Oct 2000
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000georl..27.3273s&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 27, Issue 20, p. 3273-3276
Physics
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Ionosphere: Polar Cap Ionosphere, Magnetospheric Physics: Current Systems, Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetosphere/Ionosphere Interactions, Magnetospheric Physics: Solar Wind/Magnetosphere Interactions
Scientific paper
The magnetic measurements by the Ørsted satellite in noon-midnight orbits have enabled the derivation of the global dawn-dusk oriented ionospheric currents from an Ampère's law closed loop line integral of the geomagnetic vector field along the satellite track. The globally integrated dawn-to-dusk ionospheric current is found to be proportional to the geo-effective solar wind electric field and is around 1 million ampère for a typical solar wind electric field of 2 mV/m. Dividing the Ampère integral into semi-orbit parts has enabled us to show that the hemispherical total current intensities depend on the respective polar cap conductivities, which relate to the daily and seasonally varying solar illumination. The more illuminated hemisphere conveys up to three times more current from dawn to dusk than does the less illuminated.
Primdahl Fritz
Stauning Peter
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