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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…