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  Picturing the global magnetosphere during storms and substorms by data-mining decades of spacecraft magnetometer observations

Stephens, G., Sitnov, M., Weigel, R., Turner, D., Tsyganenko, N., Rogers, A., Genestreti, K., Slavin, J., Arnold, H. (2023): Picturing the global magnetosphere during storms and substorms by data-mining decades of spacecraft magnetometer observations, XXVIII General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) (Berlin 2023).
https://doi.org/10.57757/IUGG23-3583

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Item Permalink: https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_5020561 Version Permalink: https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_5020561_1
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Stephens, Grant1, Author
Sitnov, Mikhail1, Author
Weigel, Robert1, Author
Turner, Drew1, Author
Tsyganenko, Nikolai1, Author
Rogers, Anthony1, Author
Genestreti, Kevin1, Author
Slavin, James1, Author
Arnold, Harry1, Author
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1IUGG 2023, General Assemblies, 1 General, International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), External Organizations, ou_5011304              

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 Abstract: The magnetosphere undergoes global dynamical reconfigurations termed storms and substorms in response to solar wind driving. Understanding how the 3D magnetic field and associated current systems evolve in time during these events is critical to characterizing the magnetosphere system. However, modeling storms and substorms using first-principles approaches is complicated because non-ideal magnetohydrodynamical processes, such as the formation of the storm-time ring current, thin current sheets, and magnetic reconnection, are key to their description. As such, several unanswered questions persist regarding the global morphology of these events and on their driving mechanisms. Here, we address these questions by empirically reconstructing the global 3D magnetic field and electric currents from decades of spacecraft magnetometer observations. For a given time of interest, the archive of observations is mined to form a subset of data from other times when the magnetosphere was in a similar storm and/or substorm state. This subset of data is used to fit an empirical model of the magnetic field that analytically describes the key magnetospheric current systems. This process is then repeated for each snapshot during an event, allowing for a quantitative dynamical picture to be reconstructed from the magnetometer data. We demonstrate that this data-mining based empirical approach reconstructs the primary features of substorms, including the thinning and stretching of the magnetotail followed by its rapid dipolarization, as well as the build-up of the storm-time ring current and pressure. This approach also locates the site of magnetotail reconnection during these events as confirmed by comparison with in-situ observations.

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Language(s): eng - English
 Dates: 2023-07-112023-07-11
 Publication Status: Finally published
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 Identifiers: DOI: 10.57757/IUGG23-3583
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Title: XXVIII General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG)
Place of Event: Berlin
Start-/End Date: 2023-07-11 - 2023-07-20

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Title: XXVIII General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG)
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