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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
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Three principal components describe the spatiotemporal development of mesoscale ionospheric equivalent currents around substorm onsets
Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland
Ari Viljanen
Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland
Noora Partamies
Department of Arctic Geophysics, University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS), Longyearbyen, Norway
Heikki Vanhamäki
Space Physics and Astronomy Research Unit, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
Mirjam Kellinsalmi
Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland
Simon Walker
Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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Much like solar flares, substorms occurring within the Earth's magnetic domain are explosive events that cause vivid auroral displays. A decades-long debate exists to explain the substorm onset. We devise a simulation encompassing the entire near-Earth space and demonstrate that detailed modelling of magnetic reconnection explains the central substorm observations. Our results help to understand the unpredictable substorm process, which will significantly improve space weather forecasts.
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Yann Pfau-Kempf, Heli Hietala, Steve E. Milan, Liisa Juusola, Sanni Hoilijoki, Urs Ganse, Sebastian von Alfthan, and Minna Palmroth
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We use the connection between auroras and geomagnetic field variations in a concept for a Regional Auroral Forecast (RAF) service. RAF is based on statistical relationships between alerts by the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center and magnetic time derivatives measured by five MIRACLE magnetometer stations located in the surroundings of the Sodankylä research station. As an improvement to previous similar services RAF yields knowledge on typical auroral storm durations at different latitudes.
Peter Wintoft, Ari Viljanen, and Magnus Wik
Ann. Geophys., 34, 485–491, https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-34-485-2016, https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-34-485-2016, 2016
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Extreme value analysis has been applied to 1-minute-resolution magnetic fields and computed electric fields over Europe. We find that on average the largest disturbances of the fields are observed close to the auroral oval, as expected. However, the analysis indicates that as we move south from Scandinavia to northern continental Europe the distribution becomes more extreme. This could be due to that strong storms regularly occur at high latitudes, while the extreme storms push the oval south.
M. Myllys, N. Partamies, and L. Juusola
Ann. Geophys., 33, 573–581, https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-33-573-2015, https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-33-573-2015, 2015
K. Andréeová, L. Juusola, E. K. J. Kilpua, and H. E. J. Koskinen
Ann. Geophys., 32, 1293–1302, https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-32-1293-2014, https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-32-1293-2014, 2014
N. Partamies, L. Juusola, E. Tanskanen, and K. Kauristie
Ann. Geophys., 31, 349–358, https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-31-349-2013, https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-31-349-2013, 2013
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Subject: Earth's ionosphere & aeronomy | Keywords: Ionosphere–magnetosphere interactions
Ionospheric upwelling and the level of associated noise at solar minimum
Parallel electric fields produced by ionospheric injection
A comparison of Jason-2 plasmasphere electron content measurements with ground-based measurements
Multi-instrument observations of polar cap patches and traveling ionospheric disturbances generated by solar wind Alfvén waves coupling to the dayside magnetosphere
Responses of intermediate layers to geomagnetic activity during the 2009 deep solar minimum over the Brazilian low-latitude sector
Whistler waves produced by monochromatic currents in the low nighttime ionosphere
Ionospheric control of space weather
Swarm field-aligned currents during a severe magnetic storm of September 2017
Timothy Wemimo David, Chizurumoke Michael Michael, Darren Wright, Adetoro Temitope Talabi, and Abayomi Ekundayo Ajetunmobi
Ann. Geophys., 42, 349–354, https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-42-349-2024, https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-42-349-2024, 2024
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The Earth’s upper atmospheres are dominated by matter also known as plasma. These plasmas can flow from the lower region, the ionosphere, to the further-up region, the magnetosphere, which is described as upwelling. We analyse data for ionospheric upwelling over the solar minimum period. A main finding is that the noise or rejected data in the dataset were predominant around the local evening and in winter and minimum around local noon and in summer.
Osuke Saka
Ann. Geophys., 41, 369–373, https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-41-369-2023, https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-41-369-2023, 2023
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Transverse electric fields transmitted from the magnetosphere and those generated by the neutral winds yield a local breakdown of the charge neutrality at the boundaries between the thermosphere and mesosphere. The breakdown may create parallel electric fields in the thermosphere to produce spiral auroras and outflows. This explanation supposes an auroral generator located not in a distant space, but rather in our much nearer upper atmosphere.
Andrew J. Mazzella Jr. and Endawoke Yizengaw
Ann. Geophys., 41, 269–280, https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-41-269-2023, https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-41-269-2023, 2023
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Global Positioning System (GPS) measurements of plasmasphere electron content (PEC) by Jason-2 are compared to PEC for ground-based GPS receivers in Africa. Jason-2 vertical PEC measurements corroborated the ground-based measurements, and its co-aligned slant PEC values were generally close to the ground-based slant PEC values. This correspondence indicates that the Jason-2 PEC measurements could be used to resolve some ambiguities in the determination of the ground-based PEC values.
Paul Prikryl, Robert G. Gillies, David R. Themens, James M. Weygand, Evan G. Thomas, and Shibaji Chakraborty
Ann. Geophys., 40, 619–639, https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-40-619-2022, https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-40-619-2022, 2022
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The solar wind interaction with Earth’s magnetic field deposits energy into the upper portion of the atmosphere at high latitudes. The coupling process that modulates the ionospheric convection and intensity of ionospheric currents leads to formation of densely ionized patches convecting across the polar cap. The ionospheric currents launch traveling ionospheric disturbances (TIDs) propagating equatorward. The polar cap patches and TIDs are then observed by networks of radars and GPS receivers.
Ângela M. Santos, Christiano G. M. Brum, Inez S. Batista, José H. A. Sobral, Mangalathayil A. Abdu, and Jonas R. Souza
Ann. Geophys., 40, 259–269, https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-40-259-2022, https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-40-259-2022, 2022
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Using the Digisonde data this paper shows that the small variation in the geomagnetic activity during low solar activity can affect both the parameter of height and the frequency of the intermediate layer (ILs) over the low-latitude Brazilian sector. The most expressive responses of the ILs to geomagnetic activity were observed during the summer when the height of the ILs suffered a significant decrease with the increase of the magnetic activity magnetic in the first hours of the day.
Vera G. Mizonova and Peter A. Bespalov
Ann. Geophys., 39, 479–486, https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-39-479-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-39-479-2021, 2021
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The paper discusses the excitation of monochromatic ELF/VLF electromagnetic waves produced by HF heating facility currents in the nighttime ionosphere. The ground-based magnetic field is predominantly located under the source, and the wave has right-hand polarization typical for a whistler but left-hand polarization at large distances from the source. About half of the source energy propagates upward, and approximately 20 % propagates to the Earth–ionosphere waveguide.
Osuke Saka
Ann. Geophys., 39, 455–460, https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-39-455-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-39-455-2021, 2021
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The ionosphere is a partly ionized medium above the atmosphere. Because of its anisotropic properties, the imposed electric fields from the magnetosphere produce space charge. Polarization electric fields induced in the ionosphere by this process generate ion drifts (Pedersen currents) and plasma evaporation along the field lines, thus achieving a quasi-neutral equilibrium of the ionosphere. The evaporation grows as a large-scale parallel potential structure in the magnetosphere.
Renata Lukianova
Ann. Geophys., 38, 191–206, https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-38-191-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-38-191-2020, 2020
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During the most intense storm of solar cycle 24, the magnetosphere–ionosphere interaction, which is primarily associated with field-aligned currents (FACs), was much stronger than usual. Measurements onboard the low-latitude polar-orbiting Swarm satellites have shown that the intensities of FACs increase dramatically during the storm-time substorms. The extreme values of 1 s (7.5 km width) FACs reach 80 μA m−2. The lowest latitude of the FAC region is limited to 49–50 MLat.
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At times when auroras erupt on the sky, the magnetic field surrounding the Earth undergoes rapid changes. On the ground, these changes can induce harmful electric currents in technological conductor networks, such as powerlines. We have used magnetic field observations from northern Europe during 28 such events and found consistent behavior that can help to understand, and thus predict, the processes that drive auroras and geomagnetically induced currents.
At times when auroras erupt on the sky, the magnetic field surrounding the Earth undergoes rapid...
