Dayside High Latitude Reconnection

• Evidence for supra-cusp high shear reconnection, NBZ, +BY:

  • Russell et al. 1998 GRL
  • Fedder et al. Simulation
  • Sunward, equatorward flows
  • Scudder et al. 1999
  • Reconnection microphysics

• Note: low latitude sunward convection suggests

  • Lower latitude reconnection drawing plasma to magnetopause
  • Should spread laterally, otherwise, per Song&Russell ë94, tbd and Wolf ë97

Approx.

Magnetopause

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