Articles | Volume 37, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-37-201-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-37-201-2019
Regular paper
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09 Apr 2019
Regular paper |  | 09 Apr 2019

On the convection of ionospheric density features

John D. de Boer, Jean-Marc A. Noël, and Jean-Pierre St.-Maurice

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ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by editor and referees) (01 Nov 2018) by Dalia Buresova
AR by John de Boer on behalf of the Authors (08 Nov 2018)  Author's response   Manuscript 
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (24 Nov 2018) by Dalia Buresova
RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (11 Dec 2018)
RR by Stephan C. Buchert (22 Dec 2018)
ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by editor and referees) (04 Jan 2019) by Dalia Buresova
AR by John de Boer on behalf of the Authors (30 Jan 2019)  Author's response   Manuscript 
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (13 Feb 2019) by Dalia Buresova
RR by Stephan C. Buchert (11 Mar 2019)
ED: Publish as is (19 Mar 2019) by Dalia Buresova
AR by John de Boer on behalf of the Authors (25 Mar 2019)
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Short summary
Modelling aurorae, we asked what boundary condition (BC) to use for the E field on the upper boundary. Typically a Dirichlet BC is used, since processes above the domain generate E. But then conductivity structures trigger FACs driven immediately by magnetospheric convection, even though it is a finite energy source, delayed by the Alfvén speed. If the BC is not ideal, then E x B drift in the ionosphere depends on the plasma's properties. So we investigated.