The highly structured nature of the solar wind plasma and magnetic field provide an excellent opportunity to probe the transient response of the Earth's coupled magnetosphere-ionosphere system to varying input. Past studies have provided some insight into the response of the bow shock, magnetosheath, magnetopause, magnetotail, and inner magnetosphere to these solar wind variations, but left many questions unanswered. Relevant topics include the generation of kinetic structures within the foreshock, the amplitude of bow shock and magnetopause motion, the initiation of reconnection at the magnetopause and in the magnetotail, the generation of localized field-aligned currents linking the magnetosphere to the ionosphere, and enhanced charged particle transport and acceleration within the inner magnetosphere. Advances in global and local simulation capabilities, as well as the availability of observations from state-of-the-art instruments on missions like MMS, ERG, Van Allen Probes, THEMIS, and Cluster now enable comprehensive and systematic studies to address these questions.
This Research Topic focuses on evaluating the impact of solar wind structures on the magnetosphere/ionosphere system through observations, modeling, and theoretical investigations to gain insight into longstanding questions concerning interaction processes.
The main goal of this Research Topic is to integrate various studies pertaining to the response of the magnetosphere and ionosphere to transient solar wind structures which will help to get a broader perspective of the basic underlying physics and help the advancement of the field. Also, this will have implications to planetary and solar wind interaction studies of solar system.
The studies in the following areas and topics based on observations, measurements and modelling are very much welcome:
(1) Drivers: solar wind discontinuities (TD, RD, shocks)
(2) Features generated in the foreshock and at the bow shock
(3) Features generated in the magnetosheath
(4) Transient response of high latitude magnetometers, aurora, riometers, radars
(5) Response of low and midlatitude ionosphere, primarily radars and magnetometers
The highly structured nature of the solar wind plasma and magnetic field provide an excellent opportunity to probe the transient response of the Earth's coupled magnetosphere-ionosphere system to varying input. Past studies have provided some insight into the response of the bow shock, magnetosheath, magnetopause, magnetotail, and inner magnetosphere to these solar wind variations, but left many questions unanswered. Relevant topics include the generation of kinetic structures within the foreshock, the amplitude of bow shock and magnetopause motion, the initiation of reconnection at the magnetopause and in the magnetotail, the generation of localized field-aligned currents linking the magnetosphere to the ionosphere, and enhanced charged particle transport and acceleration within the inner magnetosphere. Advances in global and local simulation capabilities, as well as the availability of observations from state-of-the-art instruments on missions like MMS, ERG, Van Allen Probes, THEMIS, and Cluster now enable comprehensive and systematic studies to address these questions.
This Research Topic focuses on evaluating the impact of solar wind structures on the magnetosphere/ionosphere system through observations, modeling, and theoretical investigations to gain insight into longstanding questions concerning interaction processes.
The main goal of this Research Topic is to integrate various studies pertaining to the response of the magnetosphere and ionosphere to transient solar wind structures which will help to get a broader perspective of the basic underlying physics and help the advancement of the field. Also, this will have implications to planetary and solar wind interaction studies of solar system.
The studies in the following areas and topics based on observations, measurements and modelling are very much welcome:
(1) Drivers: solar wind discontinuities (TD, RD, shocks)
(2) Features generated in the foreshock and at the bow shock
(3) Features generated in the magnetosheath
(4) Transient response of high latitude magnetometers, aurora, riometers, radars
(5) Response of low and midlatitude ionosphere, primarily radars and magnetometers
