Substorm current wedge revisited

L Kepko, RL McPherron, O Amm, S Apatenkov… - Space Science …, 2015 - Springer
Almost 40 years ago the concept of the substorm current wedge was developed to explain
the magnetic signatures observed on the ground and in geosynchronous orbit during …

The science case for the EISCAT_3D radar

I McCrea, A Aikio, L Alfonsi, E Belova, S Buchert… - Progress in Earth and …, 2015 - Springer
Abstract The EISCAT (European Incoherent SCATer) Scientific Association has provided
versatile incoherent scatter (IS) radar facilities on the mainland of northern Scandinavia (the …

Substorm onset observations by IMAGE‐FUV

HU Frey, SB Mende, V Angelopoulos… - Journal of …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Over the first 2.5 years of operation, the FUV instrument on the IMAGE spacecraft observed
more than 2400 substorm onsets in the Northern Hemisphere. The observations confirm …

A comprehensive high‐throughput analysis of substorms observed by IMAGE magnetometer network: Years 1993–2003 examined

EI Tanskanen - Journal of Geophysical Research: Space …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The annual and yearly variation of the substorm activity during a complete solar cycle, from
year 1993 to year 2003, has been examined. Almost 6000 substorms were identified by an …

A new technique for determining Substorm Onsets and Phases from Indices of the Electrojet (SOPHIE)

C Forsyth, IJ Rae, JC Coxon… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We present a new quantitative technique that determines the times and durations of
substorm expansion and recovery phases and possible growth phases based on percentiles …

Substorm occurrence rates, substorm recurrence times, and solar wind structure

JE Borovsky, K Yakymenko - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Two collections of substorms are created: 28,464 substorms identified with jumps in the
SuperMAG AL index in the years 1979–2015 and 16,025 substorms identified with electron …

The influence of substorms on extreme rates of change of the surface horizontal magnetic field in the United Kingdom

MP Freeman, C Forsyth, IJ Rae - Space Weather, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
We investigate how statistical properties of the rate of change R of the surface horizontal
magnetic field in the United Kingdom differ during substorm expansion and recovery phases …

The impact of sudden commencements on ground magnetic field variability: Immediate and delayed consequences

AW Smith, C Forsyth, J Rae, CJ Rodger… - Space …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract We examine how Sudden Commencements (SCs) and Storm Sudden
Commencements (SSCs) influence the occurrence of high rates of change of the magnetic …

Relation between substorm characteristics and rapid temporal variations of the ground magnetic field

A Viljanen, EI Tanskanen… - Annales Geophysicae, 2006 - angeo.copernicus.org
Auroral substorms are one of the major causes of large geomagnetically induced currents
(GIC) in technological systems. This study deals with different phases of the auroral …

Auroral particle precipitation characterized by the substorm cycle

S Wing, M Gkioulidou, JR Johnson… - Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Substorms release a large amount of energy, some of which is used to energize the
precipitating particles in the polar region. Superposed epoch analysis was performed with …