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Hill et al. 1981
Hill, T.W., Dessler, A.J. and Maher, L.J. (1981). Corotating magnetospheric convection. Journal of Geophysical Research 86. doi: 10.1029/JA080i011p09020. issn: 0148-0227.

The longitudinal asymmetry of the Io plasma torus, as predicted by the magnetic-anomaly model and observed by Earth-based optical astronomy, provides a driving mechanism for a corotating convection system in Jupiter's magnetosphere. Here we deduce some qualitative properties of this convection system from the general equations that govern a steady state corotating convection system (although we expect that time-dependent effects may also have to be included for a complete description of Jovian convection). The corotating convection system appears capable of providing both the dominant radial transport mechanism (with a time scale possibly as short as a few rotation periods) and the dominant mechanism for extracting energy from Jupiter's rotation (at a rate ~1015 W) for driving a wide variety of magnetospheric phenomena. A similar corotating convection system may occur in other rotation-dominated magnetospheres, for example, those of pulsars and Saturn.

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