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Numerical simulation of the magnetosphere in October 2003


Date: 28 April 2005
Satellite: Cluster
Depicts: Graph comparing real and simulated Cluster data
Copyright: Excerpt from Øieroset et al., 2005

During the 2003 Halloween storms, an interplanetary magnetic cloud event provided an exceptionally long period of more than 30 hours of stable solar wind conditions with a nearly purely northward IMF. Meanwhile, the four Cluster spacecraft were in the tail, observing a gradual transition from a "normal" hot and tenuous plasma sheet to a cold and dense plasma sheet, as a result of the IMF turning and staying northward.
Last Update: 1 September 2019
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