Magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling during substorm onset
Magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling during substorm onset
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亚暴爆发期间磁层-电离层耦合
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1996
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A. Yahnin
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N. Maynard;W. J. Burke;G. Erickson;E. M. Basinka;A. Yahnin
Through the analysis of a combination of CRRES satellite measurements and ground-based measurements, an empirical scenario was developed for the onset of substorms. The process develops from ripples at the inner edge of the plasma sheet associated with dusk to dawn excursions of the electric field, prior to the beginning of dipolarization. The importance of Poynting flux is considered. Substorms develop when significant amounts of energy flow in both directions with the second cycle stronger than the initial cycle. Pseudobreakups occur when the energy flowing in both directions is weak or out of phase. The observations indicate that the dusk to dawn excursions of the cross-tail electric field correlate with changes in currents and particle energies observed by CRRES, and with ultra low frequency wave activity observed on the ground. Magnetic signatures of field aligned current filaments, associated with the substorm current wedge were observed to be initiated by the process.