THEMIS Update and a Review of the Science Behind Magnetometer Signatures
By Laura Peticolas


2. Outline

3. Satellites Update

4. Ground-based Update

5. Earth’s magnetic fields

6. Magnetic Field Strength

7. Coordinate Systems

8. Geomagnetic (GEONS)

9. Compass-type (HDZ)

10. The GEONS Data

11. Earth’s Magnetic Field

12. Different Latitudes

13. Magnetosphere

14. Magnetosphere currents

15. Solar Wind (SW)

16. Effects of Ring Current on the Mag Data

17. Auroral Currents

18. Magnetic signatures of auroral substorms

19. Kp Index

20. Kp Index = 1

21. Kp Index = 7

22. Space Weather Effects

23. Storm and Substorms

24. THEMIS will determine which competing model is correct

25. Daytime (Sq) Currents

26. Ionosphere Effects

 
 
 
Solar Wind (SW)
When changes in the solar wind, such as
changes due to Coronal Mass Ejections, hit
Earth’s magnetosphere, the magnetospheric
currents will change. These currents will
cause changes in your magnetometer data.
We will focus on ring currents and auroral currents.
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