Instability of the magnetosphere-ionosphere convection and formation of auroral arcs

In this paper we study an instability of the plasma moving towards the Earth near the inner plasma sheet boundary. We include both the interchange instability of the plasma sheet and the magnetosphere-ionosphere interaction instability caused by an effect of field-aligned currents (connected with el...

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Main Authors: A. E. Kozlovsky, W. B. Lyatsky
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications
Series:Annales Geophysicae
Online Access:http://www.ann-geophys.net/12/636/1994/angeo-12-636-1994.html