- Title
- Electrodynamic context of magnetopause dynamics observed by magnetospheric multiscale
- Creator
- Anderson, Brian J.; Russell, Christopher T.; Cohen, Ian J.; Westlake, Joseph H.; Mauk, Barry H.; Leinweber, Hannes K.; Gershman, Daniel J.; Giles, Barbara L.; Le, Guan; Torbert, Roy B.; Burch, James L.; Strangeway, Robert J.; Plaschke, Ferdinand; Magnes, Werner; Fischer, David; Korth, Haje; Merkin, Viacheslav G.; Barnes, Robin J.; Waters, Colin L.
- Relation
- Geophysical Research Letters Vol. 43, Issue 12, p. 5988-5996
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2016GL069577
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell Publishing
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- Magnetopause observations by Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) and Birkeland currents observed by the Active Magnetosphere and Planetary Electrodynamics Response Experiment are used to relate magnetopause encounters to ionospheric electrodynamics. MMS magnetopause crossings on 15 August and 19 September 2015 occurred earthward of expectations due to solar wind ram pressure alone and coincided with equatorward expansion of the Birkeland currents. Magnetopause erosion, consistent with expansion of the polar cap, contributed to the magnetopause crossings. The ionospheric projections of MMS during the events and at times of the magnetopause crossings indicate that MMS observations are related to the main path of flux transport in one case but not in a second. The analysis provides a way to routinely relate in situ observations to the context of in situ convection and flux transport.
- Subject
- Magnetospheric Multiscale; magnetopause; magnetic reconnection; ionospheric convection; Birkeland currents; AMPERE
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1345497
- Identifier
- uon:29656
- Identifier
- ISSN:0094-8276
- Rights
- ©2016. The Authors. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
- Language
- eng
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