Dependence of the high-latitude ionospheric fields and plasma characteristics on the properties of the interplanetary medium
Abstract
Fairfield and Cahill (1966) and Rostoker and Faelthammer (1967) have provided convincing evidence regarding a modulation of the transfer of energy from the solar wind to the magnetosphere by the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF). The present review is concerned with questions regarding the time lag between changes in the interplanetary plasma and field parameters and substorm activity changes in the magnetosphere, taking into account an identification of the specific responses of the high latitude magnetosphere-ionosphere current systems to polarity changes in the north-south component of the IMF. Attention is given to the role of the IMF in the development of substorms, and field-aligned currents and plasma flow in the magnetosphere.
- Publication:
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High-Latitude Space Plasma Physics
- Pub Date:
- 1983
- Bibcode:
- 1983hlsp.rept..189R
- Keywords:
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- Auroral Electrojets;
- Interplanetary Magnetic Fields;
- Ionospheric Currents;
- Solar Terrestrial Interactions;
- Space Plasmas;
- Field Aligned Currents;
- Interplanetary Medium;
- Ionospheric Drift;
- Magnetospheric Instability;
- Polar Substorms;
- Solar Wind;
- Geophysics