Title: THE POYNTING FLUX INTO EARTH'S MAGNETOSPHERE IN MODEL WITH IONOSPHERIC ELECTRIC FIELD SATURATION
Abstract: The literature-known methods of calculating the Poynting flux e from solar wind into the Earth's magnetosphere either do not take into account magnetospheric parameters and, therefore, give predicted, not real value of the Poynting flux, or use constant calibration coefficients which actually are not constant and can be calcu- lated only with poor accuracy at present. Besides, these methods do not take into account effects of saturation of the convection electric field transferred into the magnetosphere from s olar wind as well as dynamic pressure P d. The goal of this paper is to develop a new method to calculate e=e * which takes into account the mentioned effects. The initial testing of the obtained results was carried out using the ring current decay time of the 20 Nov 2003 super- storm data. The test results testify in favor of the new method stated here.
Publication Year: 2008
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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