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Schmucker-Weidelt Lecture Notes, Aarhus, 1975 - MTNet

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(=disturbed)-variations: After magnetic storms the hor,j.zontal<br />

Dst --<br />

-<br />

H-component of the Ear-th's magnetic field shows a worldwide de-<br />

crease. Within a week after stormbeginn H returns asymptotj.cally<br />

to its pre-storm level. This so-called Dst-phase of storms shows<br />

negligible longitudinal dependence, while its latitude dependence<br />

is well described in geomagnetic coordinates by<br />

3 L<br />

is the geomagnetic latitude of the location considered. The<br />

source of the Dst-phase may be visualized as an equatorial - ring<br />

- current (ERC) which encircles the Earth in the equatorial plane<br />

in geomagnetic coordinates:<br />

Tf the interior of the Earth were a perfect insulator and no eddy<br />

currents were induced, the vertical Dst-coniponent would be ZDst -<br />

H, sin @. In reality, only one fourth to one fifth of this value<br />

is observed due to the field of eddy currents which oppose in Z<br />

the primary field of the ERC. Let LDst denote the inductive scale<br />

r -<br />

ijw Q=kso length of DPt, a be the Earth's radius, then for @ : 45'<br />

.,<br />

- -<br />

- 2C~st<br />

'DS t a H~st4<br />

(cf. sec. 8.2)<br />

Hence, with ZDStfHDSt 0.2 the depth of penetration will be 600<br />

km'.

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