Characteristics of merging at the magnetopause inferred from dayside 557.7-nm all-sky images: IMF drivers of poleward moving auroral forms

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3071-3098

  Maynard, N C ^a   Burke, W J ^b   Ebihara, Y ^c   Ober, D M ^d,j   Wilson, G R ^d,k   Siebert, K D ^d,l   Winningham, J D ^e   Lanzerotti, L J ^f   Farrugia, C J ^a   Ejiri, M ^c   Rame, H ^g   Balogh, A ^h   Fazakerley, A ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^d NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^e SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g IRAP   (France)

^h IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^j BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^l SPARTA Inc ^*  (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AURORA; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; MAGNETOPAUSE; RESOLUTION; SOLAR WIND; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 34547645705     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-24-3071-2006     Document Type: Article

References (62)

1. Balogh, A., Carr, C. M., Acuña, M. H., Dunlop, M. W., Beek, T. J., Brown, P., Fornaon, K.-H., Georgescu, E., Glassmeier, K.-H., Harris, J., Musmann, G., Oddy, T., and Schwingenschuh, K.: The Cluster magnetic field investigation: overview of in-flight performance and initial results, Ann. Geophys., 19, 1207-1217, 2001, http://www.ann-geophys.net/19/1207/2001/.
2. Basinska, E. M., Burke, W. J., and Heinemann, M. A.: A user's guide to locating flux transfer events in low-altitude satellite measurements: An S3-2 case study, J. Geophys. Res., 94, 6681-6691, 1989.
3. Bosqued, J. M., Escoubet, C. P., Frey, H. U., Dunlop, M., Berchem, J., Marchaudon, A., Cerisier, J. C., Fazakerley, A., Budnik, E., Lavraud, B., Rème, H., Laakxso, H., and Balogh, A.: Multipoint observations of transient reconnection signatures in the cusp precipitation: A Cluster-IMAGE detailed case study, J. Geophys. Res., 110, A03219, doi:10.1029/2004JA010621, 2005.
4. Cerisier, J. C., Masrchaudon, A., Bosqued, J. M., McWilliams, K., Frey, H. U., Bouhram, M., Laakso, H., Dunlop, M., Forster, M., and Fazakerley, A.: Ionospheric signatures of plasma injections in the cusp triggered by solar wind pressure pulses, J. Geophys. Res., 110, A08204, doi:10.1029/2004JA010962, 2005.
5. Coleman, I. J., Chisham, G., Pinnock, M., and Freeman, M. P.: An ionospheric convection signature of antiparallel reconnection, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 28 995-29 007, 2001.
6. Cowley, S. W. H. and Lockwood, M.: Excitation and decay of solar wind driven flows in the magnetosphere-ionosphere system, Ann. Geophys., 10, 103-115, 1992, http://www.ann-geophys.net/10/103/1992/.
7. Crooker, N. U.: Dayside merging and cusp geometry, J. Geophys. Res., 84, 951-959, 1979.
8. Denig, W. F., Burke, W. J., Maynard, N. C., Rich, F. J., Jacobsen, B., Sandholt, P. E., Egeland, A., Leontjev, S., and Vorobjev, V. G.: Ionospheric signatures of dayside magnetopause transients: A case study using satellite and ground measurements, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 5969-5980, 1993.
9. Fasel, G. J.: Dayside poleward moving auroral forms: A statistical study, J. Geophys. Res., 11 891-11 905, 1995.
10. Friis-Christensen, E., McHenry, M. A., Clauer, C. R., and Vennerstrom, S.: Ionospheric traveling convection vortices observed near the polar cleft: A triggered response to sudden changes in the solar wind, Geophys. Res. Lett., 15, 253-256, 1988.
11. Gonzalez, W. D. and Mozer, F. S.: A quantitative model for the potential resulting from reconnection with arbitrary interplanetary magnetic field, J. Geophys. Res., 79, 4186-4194, 1974.
12. Gosling, J. T., Thomsen, M. F., Bame, S. J., Onsager, T. G., and Russell, C. T.: The electron edge of the low latitude boundary layer during accelerated flow events, Geophys. Res. Lett., 17, 1833-1836, 1990.
13. Gustafsson, G., Boström, R., Holback, B., Holmgren, G., Lundgren, A., Stasiewicz, K., Åhlén, Mozer, F. S. W., Pankow, D., Harvey, P., Berg, P., Ulrich, R., Pedersen, A., Schmidt, R., Butler, A., Fransen, A. W. C., Klinge, D., Thomsen, M., Fälthammar, C.-G., Lindqvist, P.-A., Christenson, S., Holtet, J., Lybekk, B., Sten, T. A., Tanskanen, P., Lappalainen, K., and Wygant, J.: The electric field and wave experiment for the Cluster mission, Space Sci. Rev., 79, 137-156, 1997.
14. Hain, K.: The partial donor cell method, J. Comp. Physics, 73, 131-147, 1987.
15. Johnstone, A. D., Alsop, C., Burge, S., Carter, P. J., Coates, A. J., Coker, A. J., Fazakerley, A. N., Grande, M., Gowen, R. A., Gurgiolo, C., Hancock, B. K., Narheim, B., Preece, A., Sheather, P. H., Winningham, J. D., and Woodliffe, R. D.: PEACE: A plasma electron and current experiment, Space Sci. Rev., 79, 351-398, 1997.
16. Katoaka, R., Fukunishi, H., Lanzerotti, L. J., Maclennan, C. G., Frey, H. U., Mende, S. B., Doolittle, J. H., Rosenberg, T. J., and Weatherwax, A. T.: Magnetic impulse events: A detailed case study of extended ground and space observations, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 25 873-25 889, 2001.
17. Kataoka, R., Fukunishi, H., and Lanzerotti, L. J.: Statistical identification of solar wind origins of magnetic impulse events, J. Geophys. Res., 108(A12), 1436, doi:10.1029/2003JA010202, 2003.
18. Kivelson, M. G. and Southwood, D. J.: Ionospheric traveling vortex generation by solar wind buffeting of the magnetosphere, J. Geophys. Res., 96, 1661-1667, 1991.
19. Konik, R. M., Lanzerotti, L. J., Wolfe, A., Maclennan, C. G., and Venkatesan, D.: Cusp latitude magnetic impulse events, 2. Interplanetary magnetic field and solar wind conditions, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 14 831-14 853, 1994.
20. Korotova, G. I., Sibeck, D. G., Moretto, T., and Reeves, G. D.: Tracking transient events through geosynchronous orbit, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 10 265-10 273, 1999.
21. Korotova, G. I., Sibeck, D. G., Singer, H. J., Rosenberg, T. J., and Engebretson, M. J.: Interplanetary magnetic field control of dayside transient event occurrence and motion in the ionosphere and magnetosphere, Ann. Geophys., 22, 4197-4202, 2004, http://www.ann-geophys.net/22/4197/2004/.
22. Lanzerotti, L. J., Lee, L. C., Maclennan, C. G., Wolfe, A., and Medford, L. V.: Possible evidence of flux transfer events in the polar ionosphere, Geophys. Res. Lett., 11, 1089-1092, 1986.
23. Lepping, R. P., Acuña, M. H., Burlaga, L. F., Farrell, W. M., Slavin, J. A., Schatten, K. H., Mariani. F., Ness, N. F., Meubauer, F. M., Whang, Y. C., Byrnes, J. B., Kennon, R. S., Panetta, P. V., Scheifele, J., and Morley, E. M.: The Wind magnetic field investigation, Space Sci. Rev., 71, 207-229, 1995.
24. Lockwood, M.: Relationship of dayside auroral precipitations to the open-closed separatrix and patterns of convective flow, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 17 475-17 487, 1997.
25. Maynard, N. C.: Svalbard: A window for understanding temporal/spatial aspects of solar wind coupling to the magnetosphere and ionosphere, in: Egeland Symposium on Auroral and Atmospheric Research, edited by: Moen, J. and Holtet, J. A., p. 75-89, Department of Physics, University of Oslo, ISBN 82-91853-09-6, 2003.
26. Maynard, N. C.: Coupling the solar-wind/IMF to the ionosphere through the high latitude cusps, Surveys in Geophysics, 26, 255-280, doi:10.1007/s10712-005-1882-4, 2005.
27. Maynard, N. C., Burke, W. J., Pfaff, R. F., Weber, E. J., Ober, D. M., Weimer, D. R., Moen, J., Milan, S., Sandholt, P. E., Egeland, A., Søraas. F., Lepping, R., Bounds, S., Acuña, M. H., Freudenreich, H., Gentile, L. C., Hardy, D. A., Holtet, J. A., Lester, M., Machuzak, J. S., Clemmons, J. H., Ning, P., Stadsnes, J., and van Eyken, T.: Driving dayside convection with northward IMF: Observations of a sounding rocket from Svalbard, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 5245-5263, 2000.
28. Maynard, N. C., Savin, S., Erickson, G. M., Kawano, H., Němeček, Z., Peterson, W. K., Šafránoková, J., Sandahl, I., Scudder, J. D., Siscoe, G. L., Sonnerup, B. U. Ö., Weimer, D. R., White, W. W., and Wilson, G. R.: Observation of the magnetospheric "sash" and its implications relative to solar-wind/magnetosphere coupling: A multisatellite event analysis, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 6097-6122, 2001a.
29. Maynard, N. C., Burke, W. J., Sandholt, P. E., Moen, J., Ober, D. M., Lester, M., Weimer, D. R., and Egeland, A.: Observations of simultaneous effects of merging in both hemispheres, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 24 551-24 577, 2001b.
30. Maynard, N. C., Ober, D. M., Burke, W. J., Scudder, J. D., Lester, M., Dunlop, M., Wild, J. A., Grocott, A., Farrugia, C. J., Lund, E. J., Russell, C. T., Weimer, D. R., Siebert, K. D., Balogh, A., Andre, M., and Rème, H.: Polar, Cluster and SuperDARN evidence for high latitude merging during southward IMF: temporal/spatial evolution, Ann. Geophys., 21, 2233-2258, 2003, http://www.ann-geophys.net/21/2233/2003/.
31. Maynard, N. C., Moen, J., Burke, W. J., Lester, M., Ober, D. M., Scudder, J. D., Siebert, K. D., Weimer, D. R., Russell, C. T., and Balogh, A.: Temporal-spatial structure of magnetic merging at the magnetopause inferred from 557.7-nm all-sky images, Ann. Geophys., 22, 2917-2942, 2004, http://www.ann-geophys.net/22/2917/2004/.
32. Maynard, N. C., Burke, W. J., Scudder, J. D., Ober, D. M., Weimer, D. R., Siebert, K. D., Russell, C. T., Lester, M., Mozer, F. S., and Sato, N.: Electron signatures of active merging sites on the magnetopause, J. Geophys. Res., 110, A10207, doi:10.1029/2004JA010639, 2005.
33. McComas, D. J., Bame, S. J., Barber, P., Fieldman, W. C., Phillips, J. L., and Riley, P.: Solar wind electron, proton, and alpha monitor (SWEPAM) on the Advanced Composition Explorer, Space Sci. Rev., 86, 563-612, 1998.
34. Moore, T. E., Fok, M.-C., and Chandler, M. O.: The dayside reconnection X-line, J. Geophys. Res., 107(A10), 1332, doi:10.1029/2002JA009381, 2002.
35. Newell, P. T. and Meng, C. I.: Ionospheric projection of magnetospheric regions under low and high solar wind pressure conditions, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 273-286, 1994.
36. Ober, D. M., Maynard, N. C., Burke, W. J., Moen, J., Egeland, A., Sandholt, P. E., Farrugia, C. J., Weber, E. J., and Scudder, J. D.: Mapping prenoon auroral structures to the magnetosphere, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 27 519-27 530, 2000.
37. Ogilvie, K. W., Fitzenreiter, R. J., and Scudder, J. D.: Observations of electron beams in the low latitude boundary layer, J. Geophys. Res., 89, 10 723-10 732, 1984.
38. Ogilvie, K. W., Chornay, D. J., Fitzenreiter, R. J., Hunsaker, F., Keller, J., Lobell, J., Miller, G., Scudder, J. D., Sittler Jr., E. C., Torbert, R. B., Bodet, D., Needell, G., Lazarus, A. J., Steinberg, J. T., Tappan, J. H., Mavretic, A., and Gergin, E.: SWE: A comprehensive plasma instrument for the wind spacecraft: Space Sci. Rev., 71, 55-77, 1995.
39. Rees, M. H.: Auroral ionization and excitation by incident energetic electrons, Planet. Space Sci., 11, 1209-1218, 1963.
40. Rème, H., Aoustin, C., Bosqued, J. M., Dandouras, I., et al.: First multispacecraft ion measurements in and near the Earth's magnetosphere with the identical Cluster Ion Spectrometry (CIS) experiment, Ann. Geophys., 19, 1303-1354, 2001, http://www.ann-geophys.net/19/1303/2001/.
41. Roger, A. S., Chisham, G., Coleman, I. J., Freeman, M. P., and Pinnock, M.: Anti-parallel reconnection at the dayside magnetopause: Ionospheric signatures and implications for the low latitude boundary layer, in: Earths Low-Latitude Boundary Layer, Geophysical Monograph 133, edited by: Newell, P. T. and Onsager, T., pp. 311-318, American Geophysical Union, 2003.
42. Sandholt, P. E. and Farrugia, C. J.: Monitoring magnetosheath-magnetosphere interconnection topology from the aurora, Ann. Geophys., 20, 629-637, 2002, http://www.ann-geophys.net/20/629/2002/.
43. Sandholt, P. E., Deehr, C. S., Egeland, A., Lybekk, B., Viereck, R., and Romick, G. J.: Signatures in the dayside aurora of plasma transfer from the magnetosheath, J. Geophys. Res., 91, 10 063-10 079, 1986.
44. Sandholt, P. E., Farrugia, C. J., Burlaga, L. F., Holtet, J. A., Moen, J., Lybekk, B., Jacobsen, B., Opsvik, D., Egeland, A., Lepping, R., Lazarus, A. J., Hansen, T., Brekke, A., and Friis-Christensen, E.: Cusp/cleft auroral activity in relation to solar wind dynamic pressure, IMF BZ and BY , in: Physical Signatures of Magnetospheric Boundary Layer Processes, edited by: Holtet, J. A. and Egeland, A., pp. 173-188, Kluwer Academic Pub., Dordrecht, 1994.
45. Sandholt, P. E., Farrugia, C. J., Moen, J., Noraberg, Ø., Lybekk, B., Sten, T., and Hansen, T.: A classification of dayside auroral forms and activities as a function of interplanetary magnetic field orientation, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 23 325-23 345, 1998.
46. Sandholt, P. E., Denig, W. F., Farrugia, C. J., Lybekk, B., and Trondsen, E.: Auroral structure at the cusp equatorward boundary: relationship with the electron edge of the low latitude boundary layer precipitation, J. Geophys. Res., 107(A9), 1235, doi:10.1029/2001JA00581, 2002.
47. Z|: detailed morphology and response to magnetopause reconnection, Ann. Geophys. 22, 613-628, 2004.
48. Sanny, J., Sibeck, D. G., Venturinni, C. C., and Russell, C. T.: A statistical study of transient events in the outer dayside magnetosphere, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 4939-4952, 1996.
49. Schwartz, S. J., Paschmann, G., Sckopke, N., Bauer, T. M., Dunlop, M., Fazakerley, A. N., and Thomsen, M. F.: Conditions for the formation of hot flow anomalies at Earths bow shock, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 12 639-12 650, 2000.
50. Scudder, J. D., Mozer, F. S., Maynard, N. C., and Russell, C. T.: Fingerprints of collisionless reconnection at the separator: Ambipolar-Hall signatures, J. Geophys. Res., 107(A10), doi:10.1029/2001JA000126, 2002.
51. Sibeck, D. G.: A model for the transient magnetospheric response to sudden solar wind dynamic pressure variations, J. Geophys. Res., 95, 3755-3771, 1990.
52. Sibeck, D. G., Trivedi, N. B., Zesta, E., Decker, R. B., Singer, H. J., Szabo, A., Tachihara, H., and Watermann, J.: Pressure pulse interaction with the magnetosphere and ionosphere, J. Geophys. Res. 108(A2), 1095, doi:10.1029/2002JA009675, 2003.
53. Siscoe, G., Crooker, N., Siebert, K., Maynard, N., Weimer, D., and White, W.: Cusp geometry in MHD simulation, Surveys in Geophysics, 26, 387-407, doi:10.1007/s10712-005-1902-4, 2005.
54. Smith, C. W., Acuña, M. H., Burlaga, L. F., L'Heureux, J., Ness, N. F., and Scheifele, J.: The ACE Magnetic Field Experiment, Space Sci. Rev., 86, 613-632, 1998.
55. Sonnerup, B. U. Ö.: Magnetopause reconnection rate, J. Geophys. Res. 79, 1546-1549, 1974.
56. Sonnerup, B. U. Ö., Paschmann, G., Papamastorakis, I., Sckopke, N., Haerendel, G., Bame, S. J., Asbridge, J. R., Gosling, J. T., and Russell, C. T.: Evidence for magnetic reconnection at the earth's magnetopause, J. Geophys. Res., 86, 10 049-10 067, 1981.
57. Southward, D. J. and Kivelson, M. G.: The magnetohydrodynamic response to the magnetospheric cavity to changes in solar wind dynamic pressure, J. Geophys. Res., 95, 2301-2309, 1990.
58. Vaisberg, O. L., Smirnov, V. N., Avanov, L. A., Waite Jr., J. H., Burch, J. L., Gallagher, D. L., and Borodkova, N. L.: Different types of low-latitude boundary layer observed by Interball-Tail probe, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 13 067-13 090, 2001.
59. Weimer, D. R., Ober, D., Maynard, N. C., Burke, W. J., Collier, M. R., McComas, D. J., Ness, N. F., and Smith, C. W.: Variable time delays in the propagation of the interplanetary magnetic field, J. Geophys. Res., 107(A8), doi:10.1029/2001JA009102, 2002.
60. White, W. W., Siscoe, G. L., Erickson, G. M., Kaymaz, Z., Maynard, N. C., Siebert, K. D., Sonnerup, B. U. Ö., and Weimer, D. R.: The magnetospheric sash and cross-tail S, Geophys. Res. Lett., 25, 1605-1608, 1998.
61. White, W. W., Schoendorf, J. A., Siebert, K. D., Maynard, N. C., Weimer, D. R., Wilson, G. L., Sonnerup, B. U. Ö., Siscoe, G. L., and Erickson, G. M.: MHD simulation of magnetospheric transport at the mesoscale, in: Space Weather, Geophysical Monograph Series Vol. 125, edited by: Song, P., Singer, H. J., and Siscoe, G. L., pp. 229-240, American Geophys. Union, 2001.
62. Zesta, E., Hughes, W. J., Engebretson, M. J., Hughes, T. J., Lazarus, A. J., and Paulerina, K. I.: The November 9, 1993, traveling convection vortex event: A case study, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 28 041-28 058, 1999.