TY - JOUR
T1 - On the Determination of a Moving MHD Structure
T2 - Minimization of the Residue of Integrated Faraday's Equation
AU - Terasawa, T.
AU - Kawano, H.
AU - Shinohara, I.
AU - Mukai, T.
AU - Saito, Y.
AU - Hoshino, M.
AU - Nishida, A.
AU - Yamamoto, T.
AU - Machida, S.
AU - Nagai, T.
AU - Kokubun, S.
AU - Kawano, H.
PY - 1996
Y1 - 1996
N2 - A new method to estimate the spatial structure of the moving magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) system is presented. We integrate the Faraday's induction equation, [Formula Omitted], assuming that the system is one-dimensional. The spatial gradient direction, along which the integration is made, is determined by minimizing the residue of the integrated Faraday's equation against the observed magnetic field. This new method can be regarded as an extension of the conventional magnetic minimum variance method. Sample data analyses using this new method for magnetotail events are also presented.
AB - A new method to estimate the spatial structure of the moving magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) system is presented. We integrate the Faraday's induction equation, [Formula Omitted], assuming that the system is one-dimensional. The spatial gradient direction, along which the integration is made, is determined by minimizing the residue of the integrated Faraday's equation against the observed magnetic field. This new method can be regarded as an extension of the conventional magnetic minimum variance method. Sample data analyses using this new method for magnetotail events are also presented.
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U2 - 10.5636/jgg.48.603
DO - 10.5636/jgg.48.603
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33747913592
SN - 1343-8832
VL - 48
SP - 603
EP - 614
JO - Earth, Planets and Space
JF - Earth, Planets and Space
IS - 42496
ER -