Highlights A synchrony exists between input and dissipated energy during storms’ main phases. The overall energy budgets exhibited maximum values during storms’ main phases. The highest output energy was observed between 0400 and 0800 UT.
Abstract The solar wind-magnetosphere energy transfer is one major way of quantifying the impacts of space weather on the Earth's environment. Studies on solar wind-magnetosphere energy transfer in terms of sub-daily time scales are quite sparse. Consequently, in order to investigate storm-time characteristics of the solar wind-magnetosphere energy transfer at a 4-hourly time scale over solar cycle 23, a total of 85 major geomagnetic storms (Dst ≤ −100 nT) were categorized into bins, using the points of minimum Dst values as reference points. Additionally, the monthly statistics of the storms occurrences over the solar cycle was carried out. The statistics followed a semi-annual periodicity, with a lesser peak in the months of May and August, and a major peak in October and November. Furthermore, the energy dissipated was estimated by the summation of aurora precipitation, Joule heating, and the ring current injection. Overall, from the data analyzed, we observed storm-time intensification of energy transfer. The magnetosphere received the highest energy during the time interval 0400–0800 UT (0900–1300 LT in the American sector, and most impactful there), while the lowest energy transfer was recorded between 0000 and 0400 UT (0200–0600 LT in the African/European sector, and least impactful there). We observed a synchrony between the energy dissipated and energy input for the storms’ main phases. Generally, storms driven by a composite of two Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections (ICMEs) transients transferred highest energy into the magnetosphere, while those driven by Co-rotating Interaction Regions (CIRs) transferred lowest energy.
Sub-daily solar wind-magnetosphere energy transfer during major geomagnetic storms of solar cycle 23
Advances in Space Research ; 73 , 8 ; 4314-4328
2024-01-03
15 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
Solar wind , ICMEs , CIRs , Magnetosphere , Energy transfer
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