Affiliation:
1. Институт солнечно-земной физики СО РАН
2. Institute of Solar Terrestrial Physics SB RAS
Abstract
From data of three three superstorms we study new features of the saturation process of the polar cap magnetic flux deceleration of its area at strengthening the solar wind (SW). It is shown that the saturation of the polar cap is observed at growth of the SW dynamic pressure and vertical IMF component for both signs. Saturation is realized not only during the passage of interplanetary magnetic clouds, but also at significant enhancement of SW density, when the SW thermal pressure is comparable with the pressure of the interplanetary magnetic field. We assume that at such condiitions the saturation is caused not only by a decrease in the efficiency of reconnection at the dayside magnetopause, but mainly by a finite magnetosphere compressibility –stopping the magnetopause compression due to the rapid Eathward growth of the geomagnetic field, ie, interior magnetospheric structure of the geomagnetic field
Publisher
Infra-M Academic Publishing House
Subject
Space and Planetary Science,Atmospheric Science,Geophysics
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