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The Location of Magnetic Reconnection at Earth's Magnetopause
Fuselier, S. A.; Trattner, K. J.; Petrinec, S. M.
One of the major questions about magnetic reconnection is how specific solar wind and interplanetary magnetic field conditions influence where reconnection occurs at the Earth's magnetopause. There are two reconnection scenarios discussed in the literature: a) anti-parallel reconnection and b) component reconnection. Early spacecraft observations …
Shock Induced Strong Substorms and Super Substorms: Preconditions and Associated Oxygen Ion Dynamics
Zong, Q. -G.; Fu, S. -Y.; Yue, C.
It is well known that the interaction between interplanetary (IP) shocks and the Earth's magnetosphere would generate/excite various types of geomagnetic phenomena. Progresses have been made on the Earth's magnetospheric response to solar wind forcing in recent years in the aspects associated with magnetospheric substorms. Strong substorms and sup…
Current Sheets, Plasmoids and Flux Ropes in the Heliosphere. Part II: Theoretical Aspects
Malova, H. V.; Zelenyi, L. M.; Bruno, R. +13 more
Our understanding of processes occurring in the heliosphere historically began with reduced dimensionality - one-dimensional (1D) and two-dimensional (2D) sketches and models, which aimed to illustrate views on large-scale structures in the solar wind. However, any reduced dimensionality vision of the heliosphere limits the possible interpretation…