Month: September 2022

PLASMA SHEETS. “In the region tailward of geostationary orbit out to about 20–30 RE the changes in the current density are not uniform: the total current is distributed between the pre-existing thick plasma/current sheet and a newly formed thin current sheet embedded within the plasma sheet.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.12942/lrsp-2007-1 View in LinkedIn

LAYERED PLASMA SHEETS. “The thin current sheet is often in the ion gyroradius scale, and can host very high current densities at the field reversal region; Furthermore, complex, bifurcated current sheets and large-scale wavy structures have been identified from multi-spacecraft analyses.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.12942/lrsp-2007-1 View in LinkedIn

STORM EFFECTS. “During magnetospheric substorms, a thin and intense current sheet forms in the inner part of the magnetotail as a consequence of the intensified driving.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.12942/lrsp-2007-1 View in LinkedIn

FLUID PLASMA SHEETS. “As the flows created by magnetic reconnection in the tail enter the inner magnetosphere, the large-scale magnetic field configuration changes rapidly from highly taillike to a much more quasidipolar state.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.12942/lrsp-2007-1 View in LinkedIn

DYNAMIC ENERGY FLOW. “The reconnection process is associated with rapid and significant energy conversion from magnetic energy in the magnetotail lobes to particle kinetic energy and heat in the plasma sheet.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.12942/lrsp-2007-1 View in LinkedIn

MASSIVE ENERGY FLOW. “The tail field reconfiguration is also associated with strong field-aligned currents to and from the ionosphere, which in part contribute to the energy dissipation in the ionosphere. Thus, the large-scale current disruption, configuration change, and field reconfiguration all are associated with a major energy dissipation process in the magnetosphere.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.12942/lrsp-2007-1 View in LinkedIn

MAGNETOSPHERE. “The structure and dynamics of the current sheet in the magnetotail control the energy storage and release processes initiated with the enhanced dayside reconnection at the magnetopause. The high-speed plasma flows, strong particle energization processes, and rapid reconfiguration all are major parts in creating the space weather effects in the inner magnetosphere.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.12942/lrsp-2007-1 View in LinkedIn