Articles | Volume 35, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-35-965-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-35-965-2017
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21 Aug 2017
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The electric current approach in the solar–terrestrial relationship

Syun-Ichi Akasofu

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The sequence of phenomena consisting of solar flares, coronal mass ejections (CMEs), auroral substorm, and geomagnetic storms is mostly a manifestation of electromagnetic energy dissipation. Thus, first of all, it is natural to consider each of them in terms of a sequence of power supply (dynamo), power transmission (electric currents/circuits), and dissipation (mostly observed phenomena), i.e., as an input–output process and the electric current line approach.