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Since the early work of Dungey, Axford and Hines, and Piddington, the concept of magnetospheric convection has become more and more widely accepted as the fundamental driving force for magnetospheric processes. Although the early convection theories have been modified to include the effects of magnetospheric-ionospheric coupling, the original steady large-scale convection models remain largely intact. This paper discusses a variety of recent magnetospheric measurements which support the basic convection model. These measurements include the dynamics of thermal plasma, the drift patterns of medium-energy protons and electrons, and the direct measurement of magnetospheric electric fields by satellites and balloons. All of these measurements have added significantly to our understanding of convection processes, and taken collectively, they offer a fairly unified picture of magnetospheric convection.
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Chappell, C.R. (1974). The Convergence of Fact and Theory on Magnetospheric Convection. In: Page, D.E. (eds) Correlated Interplanetary and Magnetospheric Observations. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 42. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2172-2_19
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