Unusual shrinkage and reshaping of Earth’s magnetosphere under a strong northward interplanetary magnetic field

Xiang-Yu Wang; Qing-He Zhang; Chi Wang; Yong-Liang Zhang; Bin-Bin Tang; Zan-Yang Xing; Kjellmar Oksavik; Larry R. Lyons; Michael Lockwood; Qiu-Gang Zong; Guo-Jun Li; Jing Liu; Yu-Zhang Ma; Yong Wang

doi:10.1038/s43247-023-00700-0

Communications Earth & Environment (Feb 2023)

Unusual shrinkage and reshaping of Earth’s magnetosphere under a strong northward interplanetary magnetic field

Xiang-Yu Wang,
Qing-He Zhang,
Chi Wang,
Yong-Liang Zhang,
Bin-Bin Tang,
Zan-Yang Xing,
Kjellmar Oksavik,
Larry R. Lyons,
Michael Lockwood,
Qiu-Gang Zong,
Guo-Jun Li,
Jing Liu,
Yu-Zhang Ma,
Yong Wang

Affiliations

Xiang-Yu Wang: Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optical Astronomy and Solar-Terrestrial Environment, Institute of Space Sciences, Shandong University
Qing-He Zhang: Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optical Astronomy and Solar-Terrestrial Environment, Institute of Space Sciences, Shandong University
Chi Wang: State Key Laboratory of Space Weather, Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yong-Liang Zhang: The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Bin-Bin Tang: State Key Laboratory of Space Weather, Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zan-Yang Xing: Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optical Astronomy and Solar-Terrestrial Environment, Institute of Space Sciences, Shandong University
Kjellmar Oksavik: Birkeland Centre for Space Science, Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen
Larry R. Lyons: Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California
Michael Lockwood: Department of Meteorology, University of Reading
Qiu-Gang Zong: School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University
Guo-Jun Li: Lab of BLOS Reliable Information Transmission, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Jing Liu: Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optical Astronomy and Solar-Terrestrial Environment, Institute of Space Sciences, Shandong University
Yu-Zhang Ma: Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optical Astronomy and Solar-Terrestrial Environment, Institute of Space Sciences, Shandong University
Yong Wang: Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optical Astronomy and Solar-Terrestrial Environment, Institute of Space Sciences, Shandong University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00700-0
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 4, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Open magnetic flux in the polar cap almost completely disappeared and the Earth’s magnetotail was compressed into a calabash shape during the 9th April 2015 coronal mass ejection, according to magnetohydrodynamic simulations and observations from DMSP and THEMIS.

Published in Communications Earth & Environment

ISSN: 2662-4435 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science: Geology; Geography. Anthropology. Recreation: Environmental sciences
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