RCM-E simulation of substorm growth phase arc associated with large-scale adiabatic convection
| dc.citation.firstpage | 6017 | en_US |
| dc.citation.issueNumber | 23 | en_US |
| dc.citation.journalTitle | Geophysical Research Letters | en_US |
| dc.citation.lastpage | 6022 | en_US |
| dc.citation.volumeNumber | 40 | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Yang, Jian | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Wolf, Richard A. | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Toffoletto, Frank R. | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Sazykin, Stanislav | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-08-04T12:30:01Z | en_US |
| dc.date.available | 2017-08-04T12:30:01Z | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2013 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | [1] Substorm auroral breakup often occurs on a longitudinally elongated arc at the end of a growth phase. We present an idealized high-resolution simulation with the Rice Convection Model-Equilibrium (RCM-E) to investigate how large-scale adiabatic convection under equilibrium conditions can give rise to an auroral arc. We find that a thin arc that maps to the magnetic transition region at r ~ 8 RE emerges in the late growth phase. The simulation implies that the arc in the premidnight sector is associated with a sheet of additional region 1 sense field-aligned current (FAC) just poleward of the main region 2 FAC, while the arc in the postmidnight sector is associated with the poleward portion of the main upward region 2 FAC. Explanations for the location and the thickness of the arc are proposed, based on the simulation. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Yang, Jian, Wolf, Richard A., Toffoletto, Frank R., et al.. "RCM-E simulation of substorm growth phase arc associated with large-scale adiabatic convection." <i>Geophysical Research Letters,</i> 40, no. 23 (2013) Wiley: 6017-6022. https://doi.org/10.1002/2013GL058253. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.digital | RCM-E_simulation | en_US |
| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1002/2013GL058253 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1911/96588 | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Wiley | en_US |
| dc.rights | Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. | en_US |
| dc.title | RCM-E simulation of substorm growth phase arc associated with large-scale adiabatic convection | en_US |
| dc.type | Journal article | en_US |
| dc.type.dcmi | Text | en_US |
| dc.type.publication | publisher version | en_US |
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