Causes of plasma flow bursts and dayside auroral transients: An evaluation of two models Invoking reconnection pulses and changes in the Y component of the magnetosheath field

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research
• Main Authors: Lockwood, Mike, Cowley, S. W. H., Sandholt, P. E., Løvhaug, U. P.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Geophysical Union 1995
• Subjects: Svalbard; Ny-Ålesund; The ''Y''; EISCAT; Ny Ålesund
• Online Access: https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/38807/; https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/38807/1/121_Lockwood_94JA02264.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1029/94JA02264

Longitudinal flow bursts observed by the European Incoherent Scatter (EISCAT) radar, in association with dayside auroral transients observed from Svalbard, have been interpreted as resulting from pulses of enhanced reconnection at the dayside magnetopause. However, an alternative model has recently...