Schmucker-Weidelt Lecture Notes, Aarhus, 1975 - MTNet
Schmucker-Weidelt Lecture Notes, Aarhus, 1975 - MTNet
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'.