A novel application of Spherical Elementary Currents with Ground Magnetometers - Analysis of By effects on the auroral electrojets
This thesis advances inversion and optimisation techniques used with spherical elementary currents (SECS) to perform a statistical analysis of the auroral electrojets based on ground magnetic field measurements. The divergence-free currents in the northern ionosphere above Fennoscandia are modelled...
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ftunivbergen:oai:bora.uib.no:11250/2716829 2023-05-15T16:12:16+02:00 A novel application of Spherical Elementary Currents with Ground Magnetometers - Analysis of By effects on the auroral electrojets Walker, Simon James 2020-12-09T23:00:09Z application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2716829 eng eng The University of Bergen https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2716829 Copyright the Author. All rights reserved Auroral Electrojets Explicit By effect Spherical Elementary Currents 752199 Master thesis 2020 ftunivbergen 2023-03-14T17:40:39Z This thesis advances inversion and optimisation techniques used with spherical elementary currents (SECS) to perform a statistical analysis of the auroral electrojets based on ground magnetic field measurements. The divergence-free currents in the northern ionosphere above Fennoscandia are modelled using SECS and constrained by measurements from twenty ground magnetometers. A new regularisation technique is implemented that enables the model to find more physical currents. An electrojet detection algorithm is developed to identify the properties of the auroral electrojets based on the model output. The width, the peak sheet current density and the total current of the electrojet are identified. These electrojet properties are collected with the goal of investigating the so called explicit By effect on the electrojets. This effect refers to the influence of IMF By polarity on the magnetosphere environment. Studies have shown, using the AL index, that the westward electrojet exhibits an explicit By effect that suppresses the westward electrojet during the winter when By is negative and, less significantly, during the summer when By is positive. Investigation into the eastward electrojet, using the AU index, have shown no By effect. The peak SECS derived sheet current density in the westward and eastward electrojet are expected to be similar to the AL and AU indices, respectively. Peaks of the westward electrojet show a variation that is consistent with the explicit By effect during the winter but not during the summer. The peaks of the eastward electrojet show no By effect in either season and, therefore, agrees with the previous studies. The total current through the electrojets provide an improved measure of the strength of the electrojets. The strength of eastward electrojet exhibits no clear explicit By effect. Whereas, the westward electrojet is stronger during the summer when By is negative and, more clearly, when By is positive during the winter. The most interesting By effect was found within the ... Master Thesis Fennoscandia University of Bergen: Bergen Open Research Archive (BORA-UiB) |
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This thesis advances inversion and optimisation techniques used with spherical elementary currents (SECS) to perform a statistical analysis of the auroral electrojets based on ground magnetic field measurements. The divergence-free currents in the northern ionosphere above Fennoscandia are modelled using SECS and constrained by measurements from twenty ground magnetometers. A new regularisation technique is implemented that enables the model to find more physical currents. An electrojet detection algorithm is developed to identify the properties of the auroral electrojets based on the model output. The width, the peak sheet current density and the total current of the electrojet are identified. These electrojet properties are collected with the goal of investigating the so called explicit By effect on the electrojets. This effect refers to the influence of IMF By polarity on the magnetosphere environment. Studies have shown, using the AL index, that the westward electrojet exhibits an explicit By effect that suppresses the westward electrojet during the winter when By is negative and, less significantly, during the summer when By is positive. Investigation into the eastward electrojet, using the AU index, have shown no By effect. The peak SECS derived sheet current density in the westward and eastward electrojet are expected to be similar to the AL and AU indices, respectively. Peaks of the westward electrojet show a variation that is consistent with the explicit By effect during the winter but not during the summer. The peaks of the eastward electrojet show no By effect in either season and, therefore, agrees with the previous studies. The total current through the electrojets provide an improved measure of the strength of the electrojets. The strength of eastward electrojet exhibits no clear explicit By effect. Whereas, the westward electrojet is stronger during the summer when By is negative and, more clearly, when By is positive during the winter. The most interesting By effect was found within the ... |
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Walker, Simon James |
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A novel application of Spherical Elementary Currents with Ground Magnetometers - Analysis of By effects on the auroral electrojets |
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A novel application of Spherical Elementary Currents with Ground Magnetometers - Analysis of By effects on the auroral electrojets |
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A novel application of Spherical Elementary Currents with Ground Magnetometers - Analysis of By effects on the auroral electrojets |
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A novel application of Spherical Elementary Currents with Ground Magnetometers - Analysis of By effects on the auroral electrojets |
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A novel application of Spherical Elementary Currents with Ground Magnetometers - Analysis of By effects on the auroral electrojets |
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novel application of spherical elementary currents with ground magnetometers - analysis of by effects on the auroral electrojets |
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The University of Bergen |
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2020 |
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