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Christon et al. 1998
Christon, S.P., Eastman, T.E., Doke, T., Frank, L.A., Gloeckler, G., Kojima, H., Kokubun, S., Lui, A.T.Y., Matsumoto, H., McEntire, R.W., Mukai, T., Nylund, S.R., Paterson, W.R., Roelof, E.C., Saito, Y., Sotirelis, T., Tsuruda, K., Williams, D.J. and Yamamoto, T. (1998). Magnetospheric plasma regimes identified using Geotail measurements: 2. Statistics, spatial distribution, and geomagnetic dependence. Journal of Geophysical Research 103: doi: 10.1029/98JA01914. issn: 0148-0227.

We investigate the spatial distribution, solar-terrestrial correlation, and basic statistics of a long sequence of plasma regime identifications through the probability of observation P at downtail distances of ~3060RE and remains high tailward; and (f) At xagsm100RE): (a) Conditions appear more chaotic. PS, BL, or MS can be observed anywhere inside the nominal magnetotail domain; (b) Compared to the middle magnetotail, PS and BL are observed more dawnward of the XAGSM axis and P(PS) is significantly lower (most distinctly at Kp≥3o); (c) P(PS) is centered dawnward of the XAGSM axis for both low and high Kp; and (d) At xagsm>170RE, P(BL) is greater than P(PS) or P(MS), with P(MS)≈P(PS). P(LB)>0, but low, out to xagsm≥200RE. In general, the downtail distributions of the magnetospheric plasma regimes depend more strongly on xagsm than on Kp, however the YAGSM distribution of P(PS) depends strongly with both xagsm and Kp. Magnetotail width varies weakly with xagsm and Kp. ¿ 1998 American Geophysical Union

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Magnetospheric Physics, Magnetotail
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Journal of Geophysical Research
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