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The Fields of Magnetospheric Current Systems on the Earth's Surface in an Interval of the Magnetic Storm Studied under the International Program on Solar–Terrestrial Physics

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Using the magnetic storm in January 1997 as an example, we examined the possibilities to employ the magnetospheric field T96 [1, 2] and the dynamic paraboloid model PM of the magnetosphere [3] for modeling the D st variation. We have revealed the necessity to refine the results of normalizing the free parameters of the model T96 according to the solar wind parameters. The contributions to the D st variation of magnetic fields of basic large-scale magnetospheric current systems (the field DCF on the magnetopause, the field DR of the ring current, and the field DT in the magnetotail) are estimated for different phases of the storm from model calculations. Possible causes of a discrepancy between the results of modeling D st using the T96 and PM models are discussed. Special emphasis is made on the ratios of contributions into the D st variation of the fields of the magnetotail and the ring current in the main phase of magnetic storms and on the contributions to D st of the fields of various current systems at the recovery phase.

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  1. Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere, and Radiowave Propagation, Troitsk, Moscow oblast, 142190, Russia

    Ya. I. Feldstein & L. I. Gromova

  2. Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, Vorob'evy gory, Moscow, 119899, Russia

    I. I. Alexeev & V. V. Kalegaev

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Feldstein, Y.I., Gromova, L.I., Alexeev, I.I. et al. The Fields of Magnetospheric Current Systems on the Earth's Surface in an Interval of the Magnetic Storm Studied under the International Program on Solar–Terrestrial Physics. Cosmic Research 41, 359–370 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1025057610483

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