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Variations in plasma parameters and magnetic field upon magnetopause crossing at the main phase maximum of the magnetic storm of November 14, 2012

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Measurements of the plasma parameters and magnetic field upon magnetopause crossings by the THEMIS-А satellite during the large magnetic storm of November 14, 2012, are analyzed. The main specific feature of this event is the magnetopause crossing at the time of the magnetic-storm maximum. An imbalance of total pressure on the magnetopause reaching up to ~40% has been observed. An abrupt turn of the magnetic field immediately on the magnetopause is recorded. Inside the magnetosphere, plasma motions have been observed, both along the magnetopause and inward, at velocities of ~100–300 km/s. Variations in geomagnetic parameters are analyzed before and after the crossing. It is shown that specific features of the observed crossing may be associated with a sharp change in the magnetospheric current systems during the magnetospheric substorm.

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  1. Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow, 119991, Russia

    M. S. Pulinets & E. E. Antonova

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    I. P. Kirpichev & E. E. Antonova

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Original Russian Text © M.S. Pulinets, I.P. Kirpichev, E.E. Antonova, 2016, published in Geomagnetizm i Aeronomiya, 2016, Vol. 56, No. 6, pp. 713–720.

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Pulinets, M.S., Kirpichev, I.P. & Antonova, E.E. Variations in plasma parameters and magnetic field upon magnetopause crossing at the main phase maximum of the magnetic storm of November 14, 2012. Geomagn. Aeron. 56, 673–681 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S001679321606013X

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