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Goldstein et al. 2003
Goldstein, J., Spiro, R.W., Sandel, B.R., Wolf, R.A., Su, S.-Y. and Reiff, P.H. (2003). Overshielding event of 28–29 July 2000. Geophysical Research Letters 30: doi: 10.1029/2002GL016644. issn: 0094-8276.

On 29 July 2000, IMAGE EUV observed a shoulder-like bulge on the plasmapause. Goldstein et al. <2002> showed that plasmaspheric shoulders may be caused by a pre-dawn concentration of eastward overshielding electric (E) field triggered by a decrease in magnetospheric convection. A simulation by the Magnetospheric Specification Model (MSM) captures the shoulder formation, reproducing its approximate size and location. ROCSAT-1 ion drift meter data are consistent with the strength, time development and local-time variation of the MSM eastward penetration E-field (and associated radial flows) during the shoulder formation on 28 July.

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Magnetospheric Physics, Plasmasphere, Magnetospheric Physics, Electric fields, Magnetospheric Physics, Magnetosphere--inner, Magnetospheric Physics, Solar wind/magnetosphere interactions, Magnetospheric Physics, Plasma convection
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Geophysical Research Letters
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