The effect of solar wind wave conductivity on the convection in the polar cap.
Abstract
It is shown that the dependence of the morning-evening ionospheric electric field in the polar cap on the interplanetary magnetic field has a nonlinear character. It is suggested that this nonlinearity is connected with the solar-wind wave conductivity. Allowance for this conductivity leads to a high correlation (r = 0.91) between measured and calculated values of the magnetic field and the potential difference in the polar cap.
- Publication:
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Geomagnetism and Aeronomy
- Pub Date:
- August 1987
- Bibcode:
- 1987Ge&Ae..27..616R
- Keywords:
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- Earth Ionosphere;
- Geomagnetism;
- Interplanetary Magnetic Fields;
- Polar Caps;
- Solar Wind;
- Magnetic Variations;
- Nonlinearity;
- Potential Theory;
- Earth Magnetosphere:Polar Caps;
- Earth Magnetosphere:Solar Wind;
- Solar Wind:Earth Magnetosphere