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| Titel |
Extreme high-latitude activity from high-speed stream embedded Alfvén waves |
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Eija Tanskanen, Kalevi Mursula, Reko Hynönen, Kristian Snekvik, James Slavin, Melvyn Goldstein |
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EGU General Assembly 2016
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en
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In: GRA - Volume 18 (2016) |
| Datensatznummer |
250135380
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 EGU/EGU2016-16239.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| Geomagnetic activity is known to be driven by interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICME), interaction regions and high-speed streams (HSS). Storm activity in low-latitudes is mainly driven by ICMEs while substorm activity in high-latitudes is strongly modulated by high-speed streams. In this work we explore what makes high-speed streams more powerful in modulating high-latitudes than ICMEs. We identified Alfvén waves from 1995 to 2011. Alfvén waves are found throughout the solar cycle, but they are fastest, most frequent and most geo-effective in the declining phase of the solar cycle 23, when the number of high-speed streams at the Earth´s vicinity increases rapidly. HSS embedded Alfvén waves were found to carry twice as much Alfvénicity than ICME embedded Alfvén waves. Furthermore, we found a rapid transition from predominance of slow Alfvén waves in 2002 to fast Alfvén waves in 2003, which coincide with the 40% increase in substorm number and 30% increase in substorm strength. We conclude that Alfvénic fluctuations embedded to high-speed streams make them more powerful in modulating high-latitudes than ICMEs, and thus cause largest threat to high-latitude infrastructure during declining solar cycle phases. |
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