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The Role of the Auroral Ionosphere in Magnetospheric Substorms

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High-Latitude Space Plasma Physics

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Abstract

The energy that is released during a magnetospheric substorm has large and obvious effects on the Earth’s auroral ionosphere. In fact, ionospheric effects such as the strengthening of electrojets and the motion and intensification of auroral forms were central elements in the development of the concept of the substorm (see, e.g., Akasofu, 1968). The purpose of this paper is not to discuss the obvious ionospheric manifestations of a substorm. Instead, we address the more subtle converse question of the effect of the ionosphere on substorm phenomena that occur near the magnetospheric equatorial plane.

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Wolf, R.A., Spiro, R.W. (1983). The Role of the Auroral Ionosphere in Magnetospheric Substorms. In: Hultqvist, B., Hagfors, T. (eds) High-Latitude Space Plasma Physics. Nobel Foundation Symposia Published by Plenum, vol 54. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3652-5_3

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