Recirculation of plasmasphere material during idealized magnetic storms

The fate of flux tube material once it is eroded from the plasmasphere through a dayside plume remains unknown. can be either swept away by solar wind and lost Earth’s system, or recirculated into inner magnetosphere. Recirculating could plausibly enter central plasma sheet contribute to ring current. This work uses numerical models explore this possibility. Historically has been difficult question answer due fact that wind, ionosphere, plasmaspheric plasmas are all dominated hydrogen making distinguish source observation alone. Recent advances in computing have enabled us question. Using Space Weather Modeling Framework (SWMF) couple Block-Adaptive-Tree-Solar-Roe-Up-Wind-Scheme (BATS-R-US), Dynamic Global Core Plasma Model (DGCPM), Ridley Ionosphere (RIM), we track motion leaves self-consistent manner.