1 The Solar Wind - Magnetosphere Coupling Function and Nowcasting of Geomagnetic Activity Leif Svalgaard Stanford University AMS-93, Austin, Jan. 2013.

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1 The Solar Wind - Magnetosphere Coupling Function and Nowcasting of Geomagnetic Activity Leif Svalgaard Stanford University AMS-93, Austin, Jan. 2013

2 Geomagnetic Indices have been Constructed which are Measures of Power Input to the Ionosphere (Magnetosphere) One of the best on short time scales (3 hours) is the am-index based on many stations with good longitudinal coverage in both hemispheres and am POES

3 The Coupling Function: How to calculate the power input from solar wind parameters n is the solar wind density and S is a function of the dipole The above finding was based on ~20,000 hours of Interplanetary data. Today we have an order of magnitude more data, so it is of interest to see how well the finding holds up. Being able to determine geomagnetic activity from upstream Interplanetary Solar Wind properties obviously gives us Nowcasting and [short-term] Prediction capabilities. Inversion of the process provides monitoring of long-term solar wind properties due to the centuries-long observations of geomagnetic activity. tilt, Ѱ, against the solar wind flow.

4 am ~ (BV)(nV 2 ) 1/3 276,236 hours * ~20,000 hours Svalgaard 1978 Plot of the function: Z = Y X 1/3 On log scales Dynamic Pressure ~ m nV 2 So the relationship is strongly confirmed

5 The am-index scales with BV For a given level of dynamic pressure, am is proportional to BV V o is V in units of 100 km/s The ‘hours’ is the number of hours of data in each binned data point. Note: the 3-hour am-index has been interpolated to 1-hour resolution. In the 1978 analysis, the solar wind data were averaged to 3-hour resolution. It does not make any difference. The results are the same.

6 We can remove the dependence of am on BV by dividing am by BV: Showing the clear dependence on the dynamic pressure (P). The 1/3 power reminds me of the famous Hopkinson-Cranz-Sachs 'cube root scaling law' for shock waves

7 The Dependence on IMF Clock Angle hasn’t changed q-function depends both on f and on cos α

8 If we remove the effect of the Merging Electric Field [qBV] and the Dynamic pressure [mnV 2 ] by dividing am by {(BV)[nV 2 ] 1/3 } one effect remains: the Semiannual/UT variation Equinox Solstice S = (1 + 3 cos 2 Ѱ ) -2/3 S: Geomagnetic Activity is Suppressed at the Solstices Describes well the modulation depending on Ѱ, completing the expression for the Coupling Function Dipole Tilt Ѱ

9 The Original Coupling Function and its Verification here calculate Geomagnetic Activity very precisely on 3-hour resolution The red curve is the calculated am-index over six 27-day Bartels Rotations, while the black curve is observed am. The scale is logarithmic to show how well the curves match at all levels of activity. The match is very good, except for very low values of am where the index is very difficult to measure [and where the activity doesn't matter much anyway]. Rot

10 Conclusions am = k (BV) q(f,α) (nV 2 ) 1/3 S( Ѱ ) As f depends weakly on V we find that on timescales of several rotations am ~ BV 2 [similarly for the IHV index which is a proxy for am] This in combination with other indices [e.g. IDV] that are proxies for B alone, allows us to reconstruct B and V for times past:

11 Abstract We present an semi-empirical derivation of a solar wind - magnetospheric coupling function depending on solar wind parameters and the geometry of their interaction with the Earth including Momentum Flux, Magnetic Reconnection, and Geometric Modulation. The coupling function performs well at all levels of geomagnetic activity at time-scales from one hour and up. We also show how to invert the coupling function, allowing us to infer solar wind parameters in the past ~180 years from the historical geomagnetic record.