Trying to bring the magnetopause to a standstill
Abstract
Satellite observations of the magnetospheric boundary (magnetopause and boundary layer) show it to be a very dynamic place, in part due to boundary motion. We present a straightforward technique for identifying boundary motion and for recovering magnetopause and boundary layer structure in a reference frame that comoves with the boundary, that is, a frame in which it is at a standstill.
- Publication:
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Geophysical Research Letters
- Pub Date:
- May 2002
- DOI:
- 10.1029/2002GL015001
- Bibcode:
- 2002GeoRL..29.1453D
- Keywords:
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- Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetopause;
- cusp;
- and boundary layers;
- Magnetospheric Physics: Solar wind/magnetosphere interactions;
- Space Plasma Physics: Discontinuities