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Features of terrestrial plasma transportResearch concerning the transport and distribution of ionospheric plasma in the magnetosphere are reviewed, stressing the dichotomy in explanations given for the low plasma densities outside the plasmasphere. The convection/hot solar plasma model and the convection/loss model are considered. Observations of global ionospheric outflows are compared with theoretical studies. It is suggested that there is a need for a hybrid model of magnetospheric plasma in which terrestrial plasma is both lost into the solar wind and energized and trapped within the magnetosphere, inflating the geomagnetic field and excluding cold plasma from conjugate regions.
Document ID
19900034874
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Moore, T. E.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Chandler, M. O.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Chappell, C. R.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Pollock, C. J.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Waite, J. H., Jr.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Date Acquired
August 14, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1989
Publication Information
Publication: Philosophical Transactions, Series A
Volume: 328
ISSN: 0080-4614
Subject Category
Geophysics
Accession Number
90A21929
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAG8-58
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other

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