Storm time polar cap expansion: interplanetary magnetic field clock angle dependence
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Published:2023-01-16
Issue:1
Volume:41
Page:39-54
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ISSN:1432-0576
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Container-title:Annales Geophysicae
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Ann. Geophys.
Author:
Tulegenov Beket, Raeder JoachimORCID, Cramer William D., Ferdousi Banafsheh, Fuller-Rowell Timothy J., Maruyama Naomi, Strangeway Robert J.
Abstract
Abstract. It is well known that the polar cap, delineated by the open–closed field line boundary (OCB),
responds to changes in the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF).
In general, the boundary moves equatorward when the IMF turns southward and contracts
poleward when the IMF turns northward. However,
observations of the OCB are spotty and limited in local time,
making more detailed studies of its IMF dependence difficult.
Here, we simulate five solar storm periods with the coupled model consisting of the Open
Geospace General Circulation Model (OpenGGCM) coupled with the Coupled Thermosphere Ionosphere
Model (CTIM) and the Rice Convection Model (RCM),
i.e., the OpenGGCM-CTIM-RCM, to estimate the location and dynamics of the OCB.
For these events, polar cap boundary location observations are also obtained from Defense Meteorological
Satellite Program (DMSP) precipitation spectrograms and compared with the model output.
There is a large scatter in the DMSP observations and in the model output.
Although the model does not predict the OCB with high fidelity for every observation,
it does reproduce the general trend as a function of IMF clock angle.
On average, the model overestimates the latitude of the open–closed field line boundary
by 1.61∘. Additional analysis of the simulated polar cap boundary dynamics across
all local times shows that the MLT of the largest polar cap expansion closely correlates
with the IMF clock angle, that the strongest correlation occurs when the IMF is southward, that
during strong southward IMF the polar cap shifts sunward, and that the polar cap rapidly
contracts at all local times when the IMF turns northward.
Funder
Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Publisher
Copernicus GmbH
Subject
Space and Planetary Science,Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous),Atmospheric Science,Geology,Astronomy and Astrophysics
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