Effect of diurnal convection on trapped thermal plasma in the outer plasmasphere

Autor:	D.J. Melendez-Alvira, M. A. Reynolds, Gurudas Ganguli, Joel A. Fedder
Rok vydání:	1997
Předmět:	Physics Convection Geophysics Flux tube Electric field Thermal General Earth and Planetary Sciences Flux Magnetosphere Plasmasphere Plasma Mechanics
Zdroj:	Geophysical Research Letters. 24:2255-2258
ISSN:	0094-8276
DOI:	10.1029/97gl02021
Popis:	A kinetic, multi-species model of the plasmasphere is constructed that includes the effect of convection and corotation electric fields on trapped particles in drifting flux tubes. The resulting morphology of the outer plasmasphere is significantly different from the morphology obtained using the assumption of diffusive equilibrium. The difference is due primarily to the contraction and expansion of the region of velocity space accessible to the trapped particles, and has implications for the interpretation of remote sensing experiments.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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