Solar wind control of the polar-cap voltageThe results of using various models to predict polar-cap potentials are reviewed. Quantitative predictions of merging rate, and hence of polar-cap voltage, based on subsolar merging models are reviewed, and tests of dayside merging models and their results are reexamined. Predictions and tests of cusp merging models are discussed. Two new empirical formulas for the dependence of the asymptotic polar-cap potential on the IMF are presented, and predictions of the dependence of dayside and lobe merging voltages on the IMF are derived from the antiparallel merging hypothesis.
Document ID
19870052854
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Reiff, Patricia H. (Rice University Houston, TX, United States)
Luhmann, Janet G. (California, University Los Angeles, United States)