Convection Cell Pattern - Southward IMF
Date: 22 October 2007
Satellite: Cluster
Depicts: Ionosphere plasma convection map - Cluster/EDI
Copyright: Haaland et al. [2007]
This potential map shows the plasma convection cells pattern in the Earth's ionosphere for southward directed interplanetary magnetic field (IMF). It is derived from a statistical study based on six years of Cluster EDI measurements.
For strongly southward IMF there is the familiar two-cell convection pattern.
Last Update: 1 September 2019
