Substorm Time Ionospheric Field‐Aligned Currents as Observed by CHAMP | Zendy

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Substorm Time Ionospheric Field‐Aligned Currents as Observed by CHAMP

Author(s) -

Hui Wang,

Dandan Mao,

Shuying Ma,

H. Luehr

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

chinese journal of geophysics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2326-0440

pISSN - 0898-9591

DOI - 10.1002/cjg2.1502

Subject(s) - substorm , dusk , ionosphere , magnetosphere , geophysics , physics , polar , interplanetary magnetic field , electrojet , field (mathematics) , earth's magnetic field , magnetic field , solar wind , astronomy , mathematics , quantum mechanics , pure mathematics

Field‐aligned currents (FACs) play an important role in the energy, momentum, and mass coupling between magnetosphere and ionosphere. This study investigates the statistical characteristics of polar ionospheric FACs during substorms by using high resolution magnetic field measurements on board CHAMP. Obvious daynight and dusk‐dawn asymmetries emerge in both FACs density and location. It shows: (1) FACs densities are related to AL index, with larger AL for larger current density. FACs densities during substorm are 5 times of those during quiet period. The duskside and nightside FACs densities correlate well with AL , while the dawnside and dayside FACs densities do not correlate well with AL ; (2) the locations of peak FACs densities do not correlate with AL . The dusk FACs locate equatorward of the dawn, and the nightside FACs locate equatorward of the dayside.

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