Energy flux in the Earth's magnetosphere: Storm – substorm relationship |
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Authors: | Alexeev Igor I |
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Institution: | (1) Scobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow, 119992, Russia |
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Abstract: | Three ways of the energy transfer in the Earth's magnetosphere are studied. The solar wind MHD generator is an unique energy
source for all magnetospheric processes. Field-aligned currents directly transport the energy and momentum of the solar wind
plasma to the Earth's ionosphere. The magnetospheric lobe and plasma sheet convection generated by the solar wind is another
magnetospheric energy source. Plasma sheet particles and cold ionospheric polar wind ions are accelerated by convection electric
field. After energetic particle precipitation into the upper atmosphere the solar wind energy is transferred into the ionosphere
and atmosphere. This way of the energy transfer can include the tail lobe magnetic field energy storage connected with the
increase of the tail current during the southward IMF. After that the magnetospheric substorm occurs. The model calculations
of the magnetospheric energy give possibility to determine the ground state of the magnetosphere, and to calculate relative
contributions of the tail current, ring current and field-aligned currents to the magnetospheric energy. The magnetospheric
substorms and storms manifest that the permanent solar wind energy transfer ways are not enough for the covering of the solar
wind energy input into the magnetosphere. Nonlinear explosive processes are necessary for the energy transmission into the
ionosphere and atmosphere. For understanding a relation between substorm and storm it is necessary to take into account that
they are the concurrent energy transferring ways.
This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
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Keywords: | magnetospheric energy solar wind-magnetosphere interactions |
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