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DOI | 10.1002/2017GL074539 |
On the origin of plasma sheet reconfiguration during the substorm growth phase | |
Gordeev, Evgeny1; Sergeev, Victor1; Merkin, Viacheslav2; Kuznetsova, Maria3 | |
2017-09-16 | |
发表期刊 | GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS |
ISSN | 0094-8276 |
EISSN | 1944-8007 |
出版年 | 2017 |
卷号 | 44期号:17 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Russia; USA |
英文摘要 | Recently, Hsieh and Otto (2014) suggested that transport of the closed magnetic flux to the dayside reconnection region may be a key process which controls the reconfiguration of magnetotail during the substorm growth phase. We investigate this problem using global self-consistent MHD simulations and confirm that magnetotail reconfiguration is essentially a 3-D process which cannot be fully described based on 2-D-like tail evolution powered by the magnetic flux loading into the lobes. We found that near-Earth return convection strength on the nightside is directly related to the intensity of dayside reconnection, which causes the formation of antisunward azimuthal pressure gradients that force plasma to flow toward the dayside magnetopause. This near-Earth part of global convection develops immediately after the onset of dayside reconnection and reaches a quasi-steady level in 10-15 min. Its magnitude exceeds the total sunward flux transport in the midtail plasma sheet at X approximate to -20 R-E by an order of magnitude, causing significant amount (0.1-0.2 GWb) of closed magnetic flux to be removed from the near-Earth plasma sheet during moderate substorm. In that region the B-z depletion and current sheet thinning are closely related to each other, and the local Jy(B-z) relationship in the simulations matches reasonably well the power law expression found in the plasma sheet. In summary, global simulations confirm quantitatively that near-Earth return convection is primarily responsible for the severe depletion of the closed magnetic flux in the plasma sheet, major tail stretching, and current sheet thinning in the near magnetotail at r < 15R(E). |
领域 | 气候变化 |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000411702400003 |
WOS关键词 | THIN CURRENT SHEETS ; MAGNETIC-FLUX ; MAGNETOSPHERIC CONVECTION ; MAGNETOTAIL DYNAMICS ; DEPLETION |
WOS类目 | Geosciences, Multidisciplinary |
WOS研究方向 | Geology |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/28211 |
专题 | 气候变化 |
作者单位 | 1.St Petersburg State Univ, Dept Earths Phys, St Petersburg, Russia; 2.Johns Hopkins Univ, Appl Phys Lab, Laurel, MD USA; 3.NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Gordeev, Evgeny,Sergeev, Victor,Merkin, Viacheslav,et al. On the origin of plasma sheet reconfiguration during the substorm growth phase[J]. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS,2017,44(17). |
APA | Gordeev, Evgeny,Sergeev, Victor,Merkin, Viacheslav,&Kuznetsova, Maria.(2017).On the origin of plasma sheet reconfiguration during the substorm growth phase.GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS,44(17). |
MLA | Gordeev, Evgeny,et al."On the origin of plasma sheet reconfiguration during the substorm growth phase".GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 44.17(2017). |
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