Articolo in rivista, 2023, ENG, 10.3389/fspas.2023.1163139
Voros Z.; Roberts O.W.; Yordanova E.; Sorriso Valvo L.; Nakamura R.; Narita Y.; Schmid D.; Plaschke F.; Kis A.
Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria; Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science, Sopron, Hungary; Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden; CNR ISTP - Istituto per la Scienza e la Tecnologia dei Plasmi, Sede di Bari, Italy; Space and Plasma Physics, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden; Institut fuer Geophysik und Extraterrestrische Physik, TUBraunschweig, Germany.
Solar wind (SW) quantities, referred to as coupling parameters (CPs), are often used in statistical studies devoted to the analysis of SW-magnetosphere-ionosphere couplings. Here, the CPs and their limitations in describing the magnetospheric response are reviewed. We argue that a better understanding of SW magnetospheric interactions could be achieved through estimations of the energy budget in the magnetosheath (MS), which is the interface region between the SW and magnetosphere. The energy budget involves the energy transfer between scales, energy transport between locations, and energy conversions between electromagnetic, kinetic, and thermal energy channels. To achieve consistency with the known multi-scale complexity in the MS, the energy terms have to be complemented with kinetic measures describing some aspects of ion-electron scale physics.
Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences 10 , pp. 1163139-1–1163139-8
solar wind, magnetosphere, coupling parameters, turbulence, energy budget
ID: 482479
Year: 2023
Type: Articolo in rivista
Creation: 2023-06-12 16:09:38.000
Last update: 2023-07-28 15:05:30.000
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DOI: 10.3389/fspas.2023.1163139
URL: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fspas.2023.1163139/full
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CNR OAI-PMH: oai:it.cnr:prodotti:482479
DOI: 10.3389/fspas.2023.1163139
Scopus: 2-s2.0-85161003813
ISI Web of Science (WOS): 001016707100001