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Ionospheric Response to the Interplanetary Shock
- Source :
- AIP Conference Proceedings.
- Publication Year :
- 2008
- Publisher :
- AIP, 2008.
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Abstract
- The Cluster spacecraft and ground-based Digisonde network observed on November 7, 2004 a strong interplanetary shock interaction with Earth's magnetosphere which initiated a strong magnetic storm with Dst = −373 nT. When the interplanetary shock encountered the Earth system, the Cluster fleet was traveling in the inner magnetosphere region (L shell = 4.2) at almost exactly the Cluster's perigee (around 0900 MLT). This event offers an excellent opportunity to study the geospace response to a powerful interplanetary shock. The angle between the sun-Earth line and the normal direction of the shock front is only 3.0 degree indicating that the shock hit the geospace at ∼12 LT initially. It is found that energetic particle fluxes are strongly enhanced and the shock related ionospheric phenomena have obvious longitudinal and latitudinal distribution. The interplanetary shock has a significant influence on the dayside mid-high latitude stations, e.g., Millstone Hill, Wallops Island, etc. whereas the stations in t...
Details
- ISSN :
- 0094243X
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- AIP Conference Proceedings
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........52e2a79ece4db4c14e2866256f2d87f0
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2885033