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Characterising the ionospheric current pattern response to southward and northward IMF turnings with dynamical SuperMAG correlation networks
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Dods, Joe, Chapman, Sandra C. and Gjerloev, J. W. (2017) Characterising the ionospheric current pattern response to southward and northward IMF turnings with dynamical SuperMAG correlation networks. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 122 (2). pp. 1883-1902. doi:10.1002/2016JA023686 ISSN 2169-9380.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2016JA023686
Abstract
We characterize the response of the quiet time (no substorms or storms) large-scale ionospheric transient equivalent currents to north-south and south-north IMF turnings by using a dynamical network of ground-based magnetometers. Canonical correlation between all pairs of SuperMAG magnetometer stations in the Northern Hemisphere (magnetic latitude (MLAT) 50–82°) is used to establish the extent of near-simultaneous magnetic response between regions of magnetic local time-MLAT. Parameters and maps that describe spatial-temporal correlation are used to characterize the system and its response to the turnings aggregated over several hundred events. We find that regions that experience large increases in correlation post turning coincide with typical locations of a two-cell convection system and are influenced by the interplanetary magnetic field By. The time between the turnings reaching the magnetopause and a network response is found to be ∼8–10 min and correlation in the dayside occurs 2–8 min before that in the nightside.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | Q Science > QB Astronomy | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Physics | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Interplanetary magnetic fields, Magnetometers | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics | ||||||||
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 2169-9380 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 2 February 2017 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 122 | ||||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 1883-1902 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1002/2016JA023686 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 3 March 2017 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 3 March 2017 | ||||||||
Funder: | Science and Technology Facilities Council (Great Britain) (STFC) | ||||||||
Grant number: | ST/K502418/1 |
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