Energy supply processes for magnetospheric substorms and solar flares - Tippy bucket model or pitcher model?

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Jan 1985

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Astrophysics and Space Science (ISSN 0004-640X), vol. 108, no. 1, Jan. 1985, p. 81-93.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Atmospheric Energy Sources, Earth Magnetosphere, Magnetic Storms, Solar Flares, Solar Terrestrial Interactions, Interplanetary Magnetic Fields, Solar Wind, Transfer Functions

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In the past, both magnetospheric substorms and solar flares have almost exclusively been discussed in terms of explosive magnetic reconnection. Such a model may conceptually be illustrated by the so-called 'tippy-bucket model', which causes sudden unloading processes, namely a sudden (catastrophic, stochastic, and unpredictable) conversion of stored magnetic energy. However, recent observations indicate that magnetospheric substorms can be understood as a result of a directly driven process which can conceptually be illustrated by the 'pitcher model' in which the output rate varies in harmony with the input rate. It is also possible that solar flare phenomena are directly driven by a photospheric dynamo. Thus, explosive magnetic reconnection may simply be an unworkable hypothesis and may not be a puzzle to be solved as the primary energy supply process for magnetospheric substorms and solar flares.

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