The multispacecraft ISEE mission made it possible to study propagation of surface waves on the magnetopause. One case studied in detail was near local noon at a latitude of 24.4 deg. The inferred instantaneous magnetopause normal vectors oscillated about the model magnetopause normal vector in a manner expected for a wave propagating along the magnetopause from the subsolar region. By assuming a model monochromatic wave and a constant magnetopause thickness, the best-fit that yields the three wave parameters( amplitude, wavelength, and period) is determined.
Multi-spacecraft observations of magnetopause surface waves - ISEE 1 and 2 determinations of amplitude, wavelength and period
Advances in Space Research ; 8 , 9-10
1988-01-01
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Multipoint observations of the magnetopause: Results from ISEE and AMPTE
Elsevier | 1989
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NTRS | 1979
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