IMF By Influence on Magnetospheric Convection in Earth's Magnetotail Plasma Sheet

Pitkänen, Timo, 1979- (författare): Umeå universitet,Institutionen för fysik,Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optical Astronomy and Solar-Terrestrial Environment, Institute of Space Sciences, Shandong University, Weihai, China

Laundal, K. M. (författare)

Tenfjord, P. (författare)

Shi, Q. Q. (författare)

Park, J. -S (författare)

De Spiegeleer, Alexandre (författare): Umeå universitet,Institutionen för fysik

Tian, A. M. (författare)

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Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2019
2019
Engelska.
Ingår i: Geophysical Research Letters. - : Blackwell Publishing Ltd. - 0094-8276 .- 1944-8007. ; 46:21, s. 11698-11708

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Abstract Ämnesord

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We use Geotail, Cluster, and Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms data over 15 years (1995–2009) to statistically investigate convective ion flows (V⊥xy<200 km/s) in the magnetotail plasma sheet under the influence of a clearly nonzero dawn-dusk interplanetary magnetic field (IMF By). We find that IMF By causes an interhemispheric asymmetry in the flows, which depends on the direction of IMF By. On the average, one magnetic hemisphere is dominated by a dawn-dusk flow component, which is oppositely directed compared to that in the other hemisphere. This asymmetry is observed for both earthward and tailward flows. A comparison to tail By reveals that the region where the asymmetry in the average flows appears agrees with the appearance of the tail By direction collinear to IMF By. The results imply that IMF By has a major influence on the direction of the magnetic flux transport in the magnetotail.

NATURVETENSKAP -- Fysik -- Fusion, plasma och rymdfysik (hsv//swe)
NATURAL SCIENCES -- Physical Sciences -- Fusion, Plasma and Space Physics (hsv//eng)

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