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Back Convection Cell Pattern - Southward IMF

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
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