Articles | Volume 43, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-43-709-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-43-709-2025
Regular paper
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21 Nov 2025
Regular paper |  | 21 Nov 2025

Magnetospheric convection in a hybrid-Vlasov simulation

Shi Tao, Markku Alho, Ivan Zaitsev, Lucile Turc, Markus Battarbee, Urs Ganse, Yann Pfau-Kempf, and Minna Palmroth

Video supplement

Reconnection and azimuthal convection rate Shi Tao https://doi.org/10.5446/69992

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Short summary
Plasma convection is the movement of plasma that drags the magnetic field lines with it. Magnetic field in the solar wind interacts with the Earth's magnetic field and drags the dayside field lines of the Earth's magnetosphere toward nightside, causing the plasma inside the magnetosphere to circulate around the Earth in a process called the Dungey Cycle. Our simulation and methodology desribe this cycle in detail and find features in the convection that are not explained by fluid models.
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