Articles | Volume 42, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-42-145-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-42-145-2024
Regular paper
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16 May 2024
Regular paper |  | 16 May 2024

Finding reconnection lines and flux rope axes via local coordinates in global ion-kinetic magnetospheric simulations

Markku Alho, Giulia Cozzani, Ivan Zaitsev, Fasil Tesema Kebede, Urs Ganse, Markus Battarbee, Maarja Bussov, Maxime Dubart, Sanni Hoilijoki, Leo Kotipalo, Konstantinos Papadakis, Yann Pfau-Kempf, Jonas Suni, Vertti Tarvus, Abiyot Workayehu, Hongyang Zhou, and Minna Palmroth

Data sets

Vlasiator 6D 'EGI' tail current sheet data series Minna Palmroth https://doi.org/10.23729/72EFF3EF-C84B-43B8-94D1-0A8B49C7C56D

Model code and software

Vlasiator Yann Pfau-Kempf et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3640593

Analysator Markus Battarbee et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4462514

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Short summary
Magnetic reconnection is one of the main processes for energy conversion and plasma transport in space plasma physics, associated with plasma entry into the magnetosphere of Earth and Earth’s substorm cycle. Global modelling of these plasma processes enables us to understand the magnetospheric system in detail. However, finding sites of active reconnection from large simulation datasets can be challenging, and this paper develops tools to find magnetic topologies related to reconnection.