A simplified model of polar cap electric fields.
Abstract
A simple-minded model is used in order to visualize the gross features of polar cap electric fields, in particular, the 'diode' effect which had emerged already from earlier observations, and the asymmetry between the electric fields observed on the dawn and dusk sides of the polar cap, which depends on the azimuthal component B(y).
- Publication:
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Annales de Geophysique
- Pub Date:
- September 1977
- Bibcode:
- 1977AnG....33..341D
- Keywords:
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- Atmospheric Models;
- Convection Currents;
- Earth Magnetosphere;
- Electric Fields;
- Ionospheric Currents;
- Polar Caps;
- Solar Wind;
- Interplanetary Magnetic Fields;
- Magnetopause;
- Plasma Interactions;
- Shock Wave Propagation