Entropy and plasma sheet transport

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Wolf, R A ^a   Wan, Yifei ^a   Xing, X ^a,b   Zhang, J C ^a,c   Sazykin, S ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 72649090639     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JA014044     Document Type: Article

References (60)

1. Angelopoulos, V. (1993), Transport phenomena in the Earth's plasma sheet, Ph.D. thesis, Univ. of Calif, Los Angeles.
2. Angelopoulos, V., W. Baumjohann, C. F. Kennel, F. V. Coroniti, M. G. Kivelson, R. Pellat, R. J. Walker, H. Lühr, and G. Paschmann (1992), Bursty bulk flows in the inner central plasma sheet, J. Geophys. Res., 97(A4), 4027-4039, doi: 10.1029/91JA02701.
3. Baumjohann, W., G. Paschmann, and C. A. Cartell (1989), Average plasma properties in the central plasma sheet, J. Geophys. Res., 94, 6597-6606, doi:10.1029/JA094iA06p06597.
4. Baumjohann, W., G. Paschmann, and H. Lühr (1990), Characteristics of high-speed ion flows in the plasma sheet, J. Geophys. Res., 95, 3801-3809, doi:10.1029/.JA095i.A04p03801.
5. Birn, J., J. Raeder, Y. L. Wang, R. A. Wolf, and M. Hesse (2004), On the propagation of bubbles in the geomagnetic tail, Ann. Geophys., 22(5), 1773-1786.
6. Birn, J., M. Hesse, and K. Schindler (2006), Entropy conservation in simulations of magnetic reconnection, Phys. Plasmas, 13, 092117, doi: 10.1063/1.2349440.
7. Borovsky, J. E, M. F. Thomsen, R. C. Elphic, T. E. Cayton, and D. J. McComas (1998), The transport of plasma sheet material from the distant tail to geosynchronous orbit, J. Geophys. Res., 103(A9), 20,297-20,331, doi:10.1029/97JA03144.
8. Büchner, J., and L. M. Zelenyi (1989), Regular and chaotic charged particle motion in magnetotaillike field reversals: 1. Basic theory of trapped motion, J. Geophys. Res., 94, 11,821-11,842, doi:10.1029/ JA094iA09p11821.
9. Chen, C. X., and R. A. Wolf (1993), Interpretation of high, speed flows in the plasma sheet, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 21,409-21,419, doi:10.1029/ 93.TA02080.
10. Chen, C. X., and R. A. Wolf (1999), Theory of thin-filament motion in Earth's magnetotail and its application to bursty bulk flows, J. Geophys. Res., 104(A7), 14,613-14,626, doi:10.1029/1999JA900005.
11. Delcourt, D. C., J.-A. Sauvaud, R. F. Martin Jr., and T. E. Moore (1996), On the nonadiabatic precipitation of ions from the near-Earth plasma sheet, J. Geophys. Res., 101(A8), 17,409-17,418, doi:10.1029/96.TA01006.
12. Erickson, G. M. (1992), A quasi-static magnetospheric convection model in two dimensions, J. Geophys. Res., 97(A5), 6505-6522, doi:10.1029/ 91TA03141.
13. Erickson, G. M., and R. A. Wolf (1980), Is steady convection possible in the Earth's magnetotail?, Geophys. Res. Lett, 7, 897-900, doi:10.1029/ GL007i011p00897.
14. Gamer, T. W., R. A. Wolf, R. W. Spiro, M. F. Thomsen, and H. Korth (2003), Pressure balance inconsistency exhibited in a statistical model of magneto spheric plasma, J. Geophys. Res., 108(A8), 1331, doi:10.1029/ 2003JA009877.
15. Hau, L.-N. (1991), Effect of steady-state adiabatic convection, on the configuration of the near-Earth plasma sheet, 2, J. Geophys. Res., 96, 5591 -5596, doi:10.1029/90JA02619.
16. Hones, E. W., Jr. (1977), Comments on "On hot, tenuous plasmas, fireballs, and boundary layers in the Earth's magnetotail" by L. A. Frank, K. L. Ackerson, and R. P. Lepping, J. Geophys. Res., 82, 5633-5640, doi:10.1029/JA082i035p05633.
17. Hori, T., A. T. Y. Lui, S. Ohtani, P. C:son Brandt, B. H. Mauk, R. W. McEntire, K. Maezawa, T. Mukai, Y. Kasaba, and H. Hayakawa (2005), Storm-time convection electric field in the near-Earth plasma sheet, J. Geophys. Res., 110, A04213, doi:10.1029/2004JA010449.
18. Kaufmann, R. L., W. R. Paterson, and L. A. Frank. (2004), Pressure, volume, density relationships in the plasma sheet, J. Geophys. Res., 109, A08204, doi:10.1029/2003JA010317.
19. Kauristie, K., V. A. Sergeev, M. Kubyshkina, T. I. Pulkkinen, V. Angelopoulos, T. Phan, R. P. Lin, and J. A. Slavin (2000), Ionospheric current signatures of transient plasma sheet flows, J. Geophys. Res., 105(AS), 10,677-10,690, doi:10.1029/1999JA900487.
20. Kennel, C. F. (1969), Consequences of a magnetospheric plasma, Rev. Geophys., 7, 379-419, doi:10.1029/RG007i.001p00379.
21. Kivelson, M. G., and H. E. Spence (1988), On the possibility of quasi-static convection in the quiet magnetotail, Geophys. Res. Lett. ,15, 1541 -1544, doi:10.1029/GL015i.013p01541.
22. Kubyshkina, M. V., V. A. Sergeev, and T. I. Pulkkinen (1999), Hybrid Input Algorithm: An event-oriented magnetospheric model, J. Geophys. Res., 104(A11), 24,977-24,993, doi:10.1029/1999JA900222.
23. Kubyshkina, M. V., V. A. Sergeev, S. V. Dubyagin, S. Wing, P. T. Newell, W. Baumjohann, and A. T. Y. Liu (2002), Constructing the magnetospheric model including pressure measurements, J. Geophys. Res., 107(A6), 1070, doi:10.1029/2001JA900167.
24. Kubyshkina, M., T. I. Pulkkinen, N. Y. Ganushkina, and N. Partamies (2008), Magnetospheric currents during sawtooth events: Event-oriented magnetic field model analysis, J. Geophys. Res., 113, A08211, doi:10.1029/2007JA012983.
25. Lemon, C. L. (2005), Simulating the driven magnetosphere, Ph.D. thesis, Rice Univ., Houston, Tex.
26. Lui, A. T. Y., R. E. Lopez, B. J. Anderson, K. Takahashi, L. J. Zanetti, R. W. McEntire, T. A. Potemra, D. M. Klumpar, E. M. Greene, and R. Strangeway (1992), Current disruptions in the near-Earth neutral sheet region, J. Geophys. Res., 97(A2), 1461-1480, doi:10.1029/91JA02401.
27. Lyons, L. R., C.-P. Wang, T. Nagai, T. Mukai, Y Saito, and. J. C. Samson (2003), Substorm inner plasma sheet particle reduction, J. Geophys. Res., 108(A12), 1426, doi : 10.1029/2003JA010177.
28. Nakamura, R., W. Baumjohann, R. Schödel, M. Brittnacher, V. A. Sergeev, M. Kubyshkina, T. Mukai, and K. Liou (2001), Earthward flow bursts, auroral streamers, and small expansions, J. Geophys. Res., 106(A6), 10,791-10,802, doi:10.1029/2000JA000306.
29. Pontius, D. H., Jr., and R. A. Wolf (1990), Transient flux tubes in the terrestrial magnetosphere, Geophys. Res. Lett., 17, 49-52, doi:10.1029/ GL017i001p00049.
30. Pritchett, P. L., and F. V. Coroniti (1995), Formation of thin current sheets during plasma sheet convection, J. Geophys. Res., 100(A12), 23,551-23,565, doi: 10.1029/95JA02540.
31. Schindler, K., and J. Bim (1982), Self-consistent theory of time-dependent convection in the Earth's magnetotail, J. Geophys. Res., 87, 2263-2275, doi:10.1029/JA087iA04p02263.
32. E during steady magnetospheric convection, Planet. Space Sci, 36, 353-370, doi:10.1016/0032-0633(88)90124-9.
33. Sergeev, V. A., E. M. Sazhina, N. A. Tsyganenko, J. A. Lundblad, and F. Soraas (1983), Pitch-angle scattering of energetic protons in the magnetotail current sheet as the dominant source of their isotropic precipitation into the nightside magnetosphere, Planet. Space Sci., 31, 1147-1155, doi:10.1016/0032- 0633(83)90103-4.
34. Sergeev, V. A., T. I. Pulkkinen, R. J. Pellinen, and N. A. Tsyganenko (1994), Hybrid state of the tail magnetic configuration during steady convection events, J. Geophys. Res., 99(A12), 23,571-23,582, doi:10.1029/94.TA01980.
35. Sergeev, V. A., V. Angelopoulos, J. T. Gosling, C. A. Cartell, and C. T. Russell (1996), Detection of localized, plasma-depleted flux, tubes or bubbles in the midtail plasma sheet, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 10,817-10,826, doi:10.1029/96JA00460.
36. Sergeev, V. A, W. Baumjohann, and K. Shiokawa (2001), Bi-directional electron distributions associated with near-tail flux transport, Geophys. Res. Lett, 28(19), 3813-3816, doi:10.1029/2001GL013334.
37. Sitnov, M. I., P. N. Guzdar, and M. Swisdak (2005), On the formation of a plasma, bubble, Geophys. Res. Lett, 32, L16103, doi:10.1029/ 2005GL023585.
38. Spence, H. E., and M. G. Kivelson (1990), The variation, of the plasma sheet polytropic index along the midnight meridian in a finite width magnetotail, Geophys. Res. Lett., 17, 591-594, doi:10.1029/ GL017i005p00591.
39. Spence, H. E., and M. Kivelson (1993), Contributions of the low-latitude boundary layer to the finite width magnetotail convection model, J. Geophys. Res., 98(A9), 15,487-15,496, doi: 10.1029/93JA0153.
40. Toffoletto, F. R., R. W. Spiro, R. A. Wolf, J. Bim, and M. Hesse (2000), Computer experiments on substorm growth and expansion, in Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Substorms, St. Petersburg, Russia, 16-20 May 2000, edited by A. Wilson, in Eur. Space Agency Spec. Publ., ESA SP-443, pp. 351-356.
41. Toffoletto, F., S. Sazykiu, R. Spiro, and R. Wolf (2003), Inner magnetospheric modeling with the Rice Convection Model, Space Sci. Rev., 107, 175-196, doi:10.1023/A:1025532008047.
42. Tsyganenko, N. A. (1982), On the convective mechanism for formation of the plasma sheet in the magnetospheric tail, Planet. Space Sci., 30, 1007-1012, doi:10.1016/0032-0633(82)90150-7.
43. Tsyganenko, N. A. (1989), A magnetospheric magnetic field model with a warped tail current sheet, Planet. Space Sci., 37, 5-20, doi:10.1016/ 0032-0633(89)90066-4.
44. Tsyganenko, N. A. (1995), Modeling the Earth's magnetospheric magnetic field confined, within a realistic maguetopause, J. Geophys. Res., 100(A4), 5599-5612, doi:10.1029/94JA03193.
45. Tsyganenko, N. A. (2002a), A model of the near magnetosphere with a dawn-dusk asymmetry: 1. Mathematical structure, J. Geophys. Res., 107(A8), 1179, doi:10.1029/2001JA000219.
46. Tsyganenko, N. A. (2002b), A model, of the near magnetosphere with a dawn-dusk asymmetry: 2. Parameterization and fitting to observations, J. Geophys. Res., 107(A8), 1176, doi:10.1029/2001.TA000220.
47. Tsyganenko, N., and D. H. Fairfield (2004), Global shape of the magnetotail current sheet as derived, from Geotail and Polar data, J. Geophys. Res., 109, A.03218, doi:10.1.029/2003.TA010062.
48. Tsyganenko, N. A., and T. Mukai (2003), Tail plasma sheet models derived from Geotail particle data, J. Geophys. Res., 108(A3), 1136, doi:10.1029/ 2002.TA009707.
49. Walsh, A. P., et al. (2009), Cluster and Double Star multipoint observations of a plasma bubble, Ann. Geophys., 27, 725-743.
50. Wang, C.-R., L. R. Lyons, M. W. Chen, and R. A. Wolf (2001), Modeling the quiet time inner plasma sheet protons, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 6161-6178, doi:10.1029/2000.TA000377.
51. Wang, C.-R., L. R. Lyons, M. W. Chen, and F. R. Toffoletto (2004), Modeling the transition of the inner plasma sheet from weak to enhanced, convection, J. Geophys. Res., 109, A12202, doi:10.1029/2004JA010591.
52. 5/3 and nN and associated plasma and energy transport for different convection strengths and AE levels, J. Geophys. Res., 114, A.00D02, doi:10.1029/2008JA013849.
53. Wolf, R. A. (1983), The quasi-static (slow-flow) region of the magnetosphere, in Solar Terrestrial Physics, edited by R. L. Carovillano and J. M. Forbes, pp. 303-368, D. Reidel, IIingham, Mass.
54. Wolf, R. A., F. R. Toffoletto, R. W. Spiro, M. Hesse, and J. Birn (2002), Magnetospheric substorms: An inner-magnetospheric modeling perspective, in Space Weather Study Using Multi-Point Techniques, edited by L.-H. Lyu, pp. 221-229, Pergamon, Amsterdam.
55. 5/3 from single-spacecraft measurements, J. Geophys. Res., 111, A.12218, doi:10.1029/2006JA012010.
56. Xing, X., and R. A. Wolf (2007), Criterion for interchange instability in a plasma connected to a conducting ionosphere, J. Geophys. Res., 112, A12209, doi:10.1029/2007JA012535.
57. Zaharia, S., and C. Z. Cheng (2003), Near-Earth thin current sheets and Birkeland currents during sub storm growth, phase, Geophys. Res. Lett, 30(11), 1883, doi:10.1029/2003GL017456. (Pubitemid 38002986)
58. Zesta, E., L. Lyons, C.-P. Wang, E. Donovan, H. Frey, and T. Nagai (2006), Auroral poleward boundary intensifications (PBIs): Their two-dimensional structure and associated dynamics in the plasma sheet, J. Geophys. Res., 111, A05201, doi:10.1029/2004.TA010640.
59. Zhang, J. C., R. A. Wolf, S. Sazykin, and F. R. Toffoletto (2008), Injection of abubble into the inner magnetosphere, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L02110, doi:10.1029/2007GL032048.
60. E, J. Geophys. Res., 114, A02202, doi:10.1029/ 2008JA013125.