Unusual shrinkage and reshaping of Earth’s magnetosphere under a strong northward interplanetary magnetic field
oleh: Xiang-Yu Wang, Qing-He Zhang, Chi Wang, Yong-Liang Zhang, Bin-Bin Tang, Zan-Yang Xing, Kjellmar Oksavik, Larry R. Lyons, Michael Lockwood, Qiu-Gang Zong, Guo-Jun Li, Jing Liu, Yu-Zhang Ma, Yong Wang
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| Diterbitkan: | Nature Portfolio 2023-02-01 |
Deskripsi
Open magnetic flux in the polar cap almost completely disappeared and the Earth’s magnetotail was compressed into a calabash shape during the 9th April 2015 coronal mass ejection, according to magnetohydrodynamic simulations and observations from DMSP and THEMIS.