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Liu et al. 1994
Liu, C., Perez, J.D., Moore, T.E. and Chappell, C.R. (1994). Low energy particle signature of substorm dipolarization. Geophysical Research Letters 21: doi: 10.1029/93GL02839. issn: 0094-8276.

The low energy particle signature of substorm dipolarization is exhibited through a case study of RIMS data on DE-1 at ~2100 MLT, ILAT=59¿--65¿, L=3.8--5.4 RE, and geocentric distances 2.6--2.9 RE. A strong cross-field-line, poleward outflow that lasts for a few minutes with a velocity that reaches at least 50 km/s is correlated with substorm activity evidenced in the AE index and the MAG-1 data. All the major species (H+, He+, O+) are observed to have the same bulk velocity. The parallel velocities are strongly correlated with the perpendicular velocities. The parallel acceleration is shown to result from the centrifugal force of the E¿B drift induced by the dipolarizing perturbation of the magnetic field.

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Keywords
Magnetospheric Physics, Storms and substorms, Magnetospheric Physics, Magnetosphere-ionosphere interactions, Ionosphere, Particle acceleration, Magnetospheric Physics, Magnetospheric configuration and dynamics
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Geophysical Research Letters
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