The storm time central plasma sheet

The plasma sheet plays a key role during magnetic storms because it is the bottleneck through which large amounts of magnetic flux that have been eroded from the dayside magnetopause have to be returned to the dayside magnetosphere. Using about five years of Geotail data we studied the avera...

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Main Authors: R. Schödel, K. Dierschke, W. Baumjohann, R. Nakamura, T. Mukai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2002-11-01
Series:Annales Geophysicae
Online Access:https://www.ann-geophys.net/20/1737/2002/angeo-20-1737-2002.pdf