Latitudinal dependence of short timescale fluctuations during intense geomagnetic storms: A permutation entropy approach

Michelis, Paola De; Consolini, Giuseppe; Tozzi, Roberta

doi:10.1002/2015ja021279

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“…As a consequence of the solar wind‐magnetosphere interaction, these indices display both regular and irregular variations/fluctuations on a very wide interval of timescales [ Merrill et al , ; De Michelis et al , ], ranging from a few tens of minutes up 200 min. The observed multiscale variations/fluctuations have been shown to be also due to a complex and nonlinear dynamics of the Earth's magnetosphere [ Tsurutani et al , ; Sharma , ; Vassiliadis , ; Consolini and De Michelis , ].…”

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Timescale separation in the solar wind‐magnetosphere coupling during St. Patrick's Day storms in 2013 and 2015

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In this work, we present a case study of the relevant timescales responsible for coupling between the changes of the solar wind and interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) conditions and the magnetospheric dynamics during the St. Patrick's Day Geomagnetic Storms in 2013 and 2015. We investigate the behavior of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) component Bz, the Perreault‐Akasofu coupling function and the AE, AL, AU, SYM‐H, and ASY‐H geomagnetic indices at different timescales by using the empirical mode decomposition (EMD) method and the delayed mutual information (DMI). The EMD, indeed, allows to extract the intrinsic oscillations (modes) present into the different data sets, while the DMI, which provides a measure of the total amount of the linear and nonlinear shared information (correlation degree), allows to investigate the relevance of the different timescales in the solar wind‐magnetosphere coupling. The results clearly indicate the existence of a relevant timescale separation in the solar wind‐magnetosphere coupling. Indeed, while fluctuations at long timescales (τ > 200 min) show a large degree of correlation between solar wind parameters and magnetospheric dynamics proxies, at short timescales (τ < 200 min) this direct link is missing. This result suggests that fluctuations at timescales lower than 200 min, although triggered by changes of the interplanetary conditions, are mainly dominated by internal processes and are not directly driven by solar wind/IMF. Conversely, the magnetospheric dynamics in response to the solar wind/IMF driver at timescales longer than 200 min resembles the changes observed in the solar wind/IMF features. Finally, these results can be useful for Space Weather forecasting.

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