Abstract The present conception of substorms is now under development within the scope of two basic models. In one of them (model 1) an active substorm phase is due to instability (plasma sheet reconnection) resulting from the accumulation of solar wind energy, transported to the magnetosphere, in the form of magnetotail energy. In model 2 the active phase requires no energy accumulation. In this paper a semi-empirical model is proposed where the active substorm phase comprises two periods. The first period (convection-type disturbances) corresponds to model 2, the second one (anticonvection-type disturbances) does not contradict model 1.
Magnetic storms, substorms and microsubstorms
Advances in Space Research ; 1 , 1 ; 145-150
1981-01-01
6 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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