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Geomagnetic disturbances and pulsations as a high-latitude response to considerable alternating IMF Variations during the magnetic storm recovery phase (Case study: May 30, 2003)

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Features of high-latitude geomagnetic disturbances during the magnetic storm (Dst min =–144 nT) recovery phase were studied based on the observations on the Scandinavian profile of magnetometers (IMAGE). Certain non-typical effects that occur under the conditions of large positive IMF Bz values (about +20–25 nT) and large negative IMF By values (to–20 nT) were revealed. Thus, an intense (about 400 nT) negative bay in the X component of the magnetic field (the polar electrojet, PE) was observed in the dayside sector at geomagnetic latitudes higher than 70°. As the IMF B y reverses its sign from negative to positive, the bay in the X component was replaced by the bay in the Y component. The possible distribution of the fieldaligned currents of the NBZ system was analyzed based on the CHAMP satellite data. The results were compared with the position of the auroral oval (the OVATION model) and the ion and electron flux observations on the DMSP satellite. Analysis of the particle spectra indicated that these spectra correspond to the auroral oval dayside sector crossings by the satellite, i.e., to the dayside projection of the plasma ring surrounding the Earth. Arguments are presented for the assumption that the discussed dayside electrojet (PE) is localized near the polar edge of the dayside auroral oval in a the closed magnetosphere. The features of the spectral and spatial dynamics of intense Pc5 geomagnetic pulsations were studied in this time interval. It was established that the spectrum of high-latitude (higher than ~70°) pulsations does not coincide with the spectrum of fluctuations in the solar wind and IMF. It was shown that Pc5 geomagnetic pulsations can be considered as resonance oscillations at latitudes lower than 70° and apparently reflect fluctuations in turbulent sheets adjacent to the magnetopause (the low-latitude boundary layer, a cusp throat) or in a turbulent magnetosheath at higher latitudes.

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  1. Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere, and Radiowave Propagation, Russian Academy of Sciences (IZMIRAN), Kaluzhskoe Hwy 4, Moscow, Troitsk, 142190, Russia

    A. E. Levitin, L. I. Gromova, L. A. Dremukhina & S. V. Gromov

  2. Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences, Bol’shaya Gruzinskaya ul. 10, Moscow, 123995, Russia

    N. G. Kleimenova, N. R. Zelinsky & L. M. Malysheva

  3. Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Profsoyuznaya ul. 84/32, Moscow, 117997, Russia

    N. G. Kleimenova & E. E. Antonova

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

    E. E. Antonova

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Original Russian Text © A.E. Levitin, N.G. Kleimenova, L.I. Gromova, E.E. Antonova, L.A. Dremukhina, N.R. Zelinsky, S.V. Gromov, L.M. Malysheva, 2015, published in Geomagnetizm i Aeronomiya, 2015, Vol. 55, No. 6, pp. 755–768.

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Levitin, A.E., Kleimenova, N.G., Gromova, L.I. et al. Geomagnetic disturbances and pulsations as a high-latitude response to considerable alternating IMF Variations during the magnetic storm recovery phase (Case study: May 30, 2003). Geomagn. Aeron. 55, 730–743 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016793215060092

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