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Diurnal and seasonal variations of the geomagnetic AL index are studied. It is found in disturbed days that the mode of AL diurnal variation depends on the angle between the Sun–Earth line prolongation in the direction towards the magnetotail and the plane of geomagnetic equator; on quiet days, AL depends on the angle of attack between the geomagnetic axis and the Earth–Sun line. Seasonal AL variations are characterized by annual variations with summer maximum and semiannual variations with equinoctial maxima. It is shown that the semiannual AL variations can be described by a simplified model of plasma convection in the magnetotail based on a plasma electron cooling mechanism.
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Original Russian Text © G.F. Krymskii, G.A. Makarov, 2018, published in Geomagnetizm i Aeronomiya, 2018, Vol. 58, No. 3.
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Krymskii, G.F., Makarov, G.A. Regular Variations of Intensity of the Westward Auroral Electrojet according to the Geomagnetic AL Index. Geomagn. Aeron. 58, 332–337 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016793218030106
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