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JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH,
VOL. 107, NO. A7,
1121,
doi:10.1029/2001JA900171,
2002
Variability of magnetospheric storms driven by different solar wind perturbations
K. Emilia J. Huttunen
Department of Physical Sciences, Theoretical Physics Division,
University of Helsinki,
Helsinki,
Finland
Hannu E. J. Koskinen
Department of Physical Sciences, Theoretical Physics Division,
University of Helsinki,
Helsinki,
Finland Geophysical Research,
Finnish Meteorological Institute,
Helsinki,
Finland
Rainer Schwenn
Max-Planck-Institut für Aeronomie,
Lindau,
Germany
Abstract
We have investigated the solar wind drivers of magnetic storms during the rising phase of solar cycle 23 from January 1996
to December 1999. We used observations of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) by the Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph instrument
on SOHO and in situ solar wind observations by Wind, IMP 8, and ACE spacecraft. The storms were determined from both the Dst and Kp indices, and the study was limited to storms with Dst ≤ −50 nT or Kp ≥ 5. We show examples of different behavior of Dst and Kp indices during magnetic storms caused by different types of solar wind drivers. Furthermore, we have investigated cross-correlation
between peak Dst and Kp values of storms organized according to the associated solar wind driver. It makes a difference whether a sheath region or
the following ejecta causes the storm. We found that almost all intense and stronger magnetic storms (Dst ≤ −100 nT, or Kp ≥ 7−) were associated with shocks and CMEs, but for moderate storms, driver statistics were different in different phases
of the solar cycle. We found different behavior of the Kp and Dst indices during different types of solar wind drivers. Intense and short-time disturbances, like postshock streams and sheath
regions, generated more Kp storms, and ejecta generated more Dst storms. Thus one should be careful when comparing studies based on any single activity index.
Published 20
July
2002.
Index Terms: 2111 Interplanetary Physics: Ejecta, driver gases, and magnetic clouds; 2139 Interplanetary Physics: Interplanetary shocks; 2778 Magnetospheric Physics: Ring current; 2788 Magnetospheric Physics: Storms and substorms.
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Citation: Huttunen, K. E. J., H. E. J. Koskinen, and R. Schwenn
(2002),
Variability of magnetospheric storms driven by different solar wind perturbations,
J. Geophys. Res.,
107(A7),
1121,
doi:10.1029/2001JA900171.
Copyright 2002 by the American Geophysical Union.
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