ENERGY SINKS. “Mainly two processes consume energy in the ionosphere: Joule heating resulting from the ionospheric closure of field-aligned currents and precipitation of magnetospheric electrons causing the auroral displays. Both quantities can be computed from the ionospheric solution of the global simulation.”
https://link.springer.com/article/10.12942/lrsp-2007-1
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022