Articles | Volume 33, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-33-39-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-33-39-2015
ANGEO Communicates
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12 Jan 2015
ANGEO Communicates |  | 12 Jan 2015

The nightside magnetic field line open–closed boundary and polar rain electron energy-latitude dispersion

S. Wing and Y. L. Zhang

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Magnetotail reconnection and E×B leads to dispersion in polar rain electrons. APL-OPM successfully models the polar rain energy-latitude dispersion. The magnetic field line open-closed boundary is located poleward of the auroral oval.
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