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@inproceedings{Taylor:2006,
author = {Taylor, MGGT and Lavraud, B and Thomsen, MF and Fazakerley, AN and Dunlop, MW and Davies, JA and Escoubet, CP and Laakso, H and Khan, H and Masson, A and Opgenoorth, HJ and Friedel, RH and Rème, H and Carr, CM and Zhang, TL and Lucek, EA},
pages = {421--427},
title = {Multi-satellite observations of the near earth plasma sheet and flank magnetopause: Response to the 5 <sup>TH</sup> December 2004 CME},
year = {2006}
}
TY - CPAPER
AB - On 5 th December 2004 after an extended period of weakly northward/dawnward directed interplanetary magnetic field (IMF), a coronal mass ejection (CME) impacted the Earth's magnetosphere. The interplanetary magnetic cloud was characterised by an extended (> 12 hours) period of northward IMF (although initially with a clock angle ∼ 45 degrees) and a rapid solar wind dynamic pressure increase from 1-9 nPa. During this time numerous magnetospheric spacecraft were operational: The ESA Cluster spacecraft were inbound from the southern hemisphere, dusk-flank magnetosheath; on the same flank, the CNSA/ESA TC-1 spacecraft was skimming the magnetopause; closer to the Earth, the CNSA/ESA TC-2 spacecraft was in the northern hemisphere lobe/mantle/plasma sheet boundary region at an altitude of about 5 Earth Radii and we also made use of multipoint measurements from the LANL geosynchronous spacecraft. From previous studies, the impinging Solar wind/IMF conditions characterising this event (northward IMF and compressed magnetosphere) are conducive to the delivery of cold dense plasma sheet (CDPS) material into the near-Earth region. In this case study we investigate the possible source and means of formation of this material and put it in context with other recent CDPS studies.
AU - Taylor,MGGT
AU - Lavraud,B
AU - Thomsen,MF
AU - Fazakerley,AN
AU - Dunlop,MW
AU - Davies,JA
AU - Escoubet,CP
AU - Laakso,H
AU - Khan,H
AU - Masson,A
AU - Opgenoorth,HJ
AU - Friedel,RH
AU - Rème,H
AU - Carr,CM
AU - Zhang,TL
AU - Lucek,EA
EP - 427
PY - 2006///
SN - 0379-6566
SP - 421
TI - Multi-satellite observations of the near earth plasma sheet and flank magnetopause: Response to the 5 <sup>TH</sup> December 2004 CME
ER -