Towards a self-consistent model for the convective auroral electrojet

U Becker; GT Birk; T Neukirch; J Dreher

Towards a self-consistent model for the convective auroral electrojet

U Becker^*, GT Birk, T Neukirch, J Dreher

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Mathematics and Statistics

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Abstract

It is shown that the intensification of electric field dominated auroral electrojets in the morning and evening sectors of the auroral oval on be understood in a self-consistent fluid model as the ionospheric response to enhanced magnetospheric plasma convection. Starting from a self-consistently calculated equilibrium characterized by current-closure in the partially ionized ionosphere we perform fluid simulations to study the dynamics of the ionospheric current system in response to enhanced magnetospheric convection.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	54-57
Number of pages	4
Journal	Physica Scripta. Topical Issues
Volume	T74
Publication status	Published - 1998

Keywords

FIELD
CURRENTS
CLOSURE

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Towards a self-consistent model for the convective auroral electrojet

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