The Solar Wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere Connection |
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accelerated amount of open approximation arrowed solid lines Birkeland Currents Birkeland Lecture boundary layer bow shock cavity charged particles comet comet Halley coronal holes Cowley dashed lines dawn side dayside cusp dayside reconnection diagram dusk side Earth Earth's field EISCAT electric field electrons Elphic equilibrium excited F-region field and plasma field data field strength frozen-in condition FTEs interaction interplanetary ionized ionosphere ISEE ISEE-2 spacecraft km s¹ Kristian Birkeland latitude lines indicate magnetic magnetic field lines magnetic mirror magnetic reconnection magnetopause current sheet magnetosphere and magnetosheath motion nightside Norsk Hydro nucleus open flux tubes open tubes outer atmosphere overall panel perturbation planetary plasma flow plasma populations plasmasphere polar cap positive Y component predicted pulse of dayside radar region ring current SC.C SC.C scale shown in Figure shows signatures Sketch solar system solar wind southern lobe sphere tension force tion twin-vortical flow upstream vector velocity zen-in