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In this thesis, the plasma flows in the high-latitude nightside ionosphere are investigated. Firstly, the interaction between the solar wind and the Earth’s magnetic field is reviewed with particular attention to the formation of the magnetosphere and the resulting magnetospheric convection. The ion...
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ftdatacite:10.25560/104251 2023-06-11T04:11:23+02:00 Ionospheric convection during substorms ... Fox, Nicola Justine 2023 https://dx.doi.org/10.25560/104251 http://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/handle/10044/1/104251 unknown Imperial College London Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 International Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial NoDerivatives Licence https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode cc-by-nc-nd-4.0 article-journal Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) ScholarlyArticle Text 2023 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.25560/104251 2023-06-01T11:49:40Z In this thesis, the plasma flows in the high-latitude nightside ionosphere are investigated. Firstly, the interaction between the solar wind and the Earth’s magnetic field is reviewed with particular attention to the formation of the magnetosphere and the resulting magnetospheric convection. The ionosphere is briefly described with a discussion of magnetosphere- ionosphere coupling and auroras. Secondly, the question ‘what is a magnetospheric substorm ?’ is addressed, together with a review of the current substorm models. There are two main research topics contained in the thesis, investigating the variation of flows in the ionosphere during magnetospheric substorms using data from radars, magnetometer chains and satellites. The first uses EISCAT radar observations to study the ionospheric convection during substorms occurring on a contracted auroral oval on two successive days. Supporting data from the PACE radar, magnetometer chains and geostationary satellites are compared to the EISCAT observations. On 4 ... Text EISCAT DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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In this thesis, the plasma flows in the high-latitude nightside ionosphere are investigated. Firstly, the interaction between the solar wind and the Earth’s magnetic field is reviewed with particular attention to the formation of the magnetosphere and the resulting magnetospheric convection. The ionosphere is briefly described with a discussion of magnetosphere- ionosphere coupling and auroras. Secondly, the question ‘what is a magnetospheric substorm ?’ is addressed, together with a review of the current substorm models. There are two main research topics contained in the thesis, investigating the variation of flows in the ionosphere during magnetospheric substorms using data from radars, magnetometer chains and satellites. The first uses EISCAT radar observations to study the ionospheric convection during substorms occurring on a contracted auroral oval on two successive days. Supporting data from the PACE radar, magnetometer chains and geostationary satellites are compared to the EISCAT observations. On 4 ... |
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