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The term geospheric storm is used here to designate an event of strongly enhanced dissipation of solar wind energy in the near-Earth space environment. Such activities typically last for 1 to 3 days and are characterized by energy dissipation rates of up to 1012W. This is many times greater than the usual energy transfer rate from solar wind to magnetosphere.
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Prölss, G.W. (2004). Geospheric Storms. In: Physics of the Earth’s Space Environment. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-97123-5_8
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