Reconstruction of the magnetopause and low-latitude boundary layer topology using Cluster multi-point measurements
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Authors
De Keyser, J.
Gustafsson, G.
Roth, M.
Darrouzet, F.
Dunlop, M.
Rème, H.
Fazakerley, A.
Décréau, P.
Cornilleau-Wehrlin, N.
Discipline
Physical sciences
Subject
boundary layer
magnetopause
magnetosphere
Audience
Scientific
Date
2004Metadata
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Multi-spacecraft data from Cluster allow for a more detailed magnetopause and boundary layer structure determination than ever before. Reconstruction methods, in which the time variability observed during a pass is interpreted as being due to boundary motion and/or spatial structure, are particularly well suited for this task. Such methods rely on the availability of plasma and field data and adopt the tangential discontinuity hypothesis to determine the motion, acceleration, boundary structure, boundary curvature and surface wave speed over an extended time interval. In this paper one- and two-dimensional reconstruction methods are applied to multi-spacecraft data for the first time.
Citation
De Keyser, J.; Gustafsson, G.; Roth, M.; Darrouzet, F.; Dunlop, M.; Rème, H.; Fazakerley, A.; Décréau, P.; Cornilleau-Wehrlin, N. (2004). Reconstruction of the magnetopause and low-latitude boundary layer topology using Cluster multi-point measurements. , Annales Geophysicae, Vol. 22, Issue 7, 2381-2389, DOI: 10.5194/angeo-22-2381-2004.Identifiers
scopus: 2-s2.0-4344621345
Type
Article
Peer-Review
Yes
Language
eng