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  • Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetosphere/ionosphere interactions
  • Magnetospheric Physics: Solar wind/magnetosphere interactions
  • Magnetospheric Physics: Ring current
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JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 108, 1232, 11 PP., 2003
doi:10.1029/2002JA009465

Global magnetospheric-ionospheric oscillations initiated by a solar wind pressure impulse

Chao-Song Huang

Haystack Observatory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Westford, Massachusetts, USA

J. C. Foster

Haystack Observatory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Westford, Massachusetts, USA

G. D. Reeves

Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA

J. Watermann

Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark

J. H. Sastri

Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, India

K. Yumoto

Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

P. Song

Center for Atmospheric Research, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA

We present simultaneous observations of long-period (∼1 hour) global magnetospheric-ionospheric oscillations with multiple spacecraft and ground-based instruments. These oscillations occurred following a major increase in the solar wind dynamic pressure. When the solar wind pressure impulse impinged on the magnetosphere, oscillations of energetic plasma particles in the ring current region were excited. The strongest oscillations came from electrons in the energy range of 75–225 keV with periods of 55–80 min. Ground magnetometers measured periodic (∼1 hour) enhancements of ionospheric currents from the auroral to equatorial latitudes. However, the solar wind pressure and IMF in this event did not show variations similar to the energetic particle oscillations and/or ground magnetometer deviations. We suggest that the magnetosphere has an intrinsic period of ∼1 hour during quiet times. The magnetospheric oscillations with this period can be initiated by a solar wind pressure impulse. After the initiation the solar wind no longer plays a role in the subsequent evolution of the magnetospheric oscillations.

Received 1 May 2002; accepted 4 April 2003; published 10 June 2003.

Citation: Huang, C.-S., J. C. Foster, G. D. Reeves, J. Watermann, J. H. Sastri, K. Yumoto, and P. Song (2003), Global magnetospheric-ionospheric oscillations initiated by a solar wind pressure impulse, J. Geophys. Res., 108(A6), 1232, doi:10.1029/2002JA009465.

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