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Lee et al. 2006
Lee, D.-Y., Lyons, L.R., Kim, K.C., Baek, J.-H., Kim, K.-H., Kim, H.-J., Weygand, J., Moon, Y.-J., Cho, K.-S., Park, Y.D. and Han, W. (2006). Repetitive substorms caused by Alfvénic waves of the interplanetary magnetic field during high-speed solar wind streams. Journal of Geophysical Research 111: doi: 10.1029/2006JA011685. issn: 0148-0227.

Substorms sometimes occur repetitively with a period of ~1--4 hours. In this paper we examine repetitive substorms, identified using particle injections and positive H bays on the nightside, that we find to occur during corotating high-speed streams associated with coronal holes. The high-speed streams often last for several days and are accompanied by large amplitude Alfv¿n waves of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF). We find that repetitive substorms occur every ~1--4 hours, regardless of the solar cycle phase, whenever the Earth's magnetosphere is impinged by these high-speed streams. We further find that a significant number of these substorms are associated with repetitive northward turnings of the Alfv¿nic IMF, each northward turning preceded by weakly-to-moderately southward IMF, i.e., Bz ~ -3.6 nT for ~29 min on the average. We present eight example intervals where most of the repetitive substorms were associated with a northward turning. Statistically, for 63.5% of 312 substorms we are able to identify a reasonable association with a northward turning. While limitations of the Weimer-mapped IMF used here and the spatial structure of the Alfv¿nic IMF prevent us from estimating a precise figure for the percentage of IMF triggered substorms, our results indicate that many of the repetitive substorms are likely due to repetitive triggering by the Alfv¿nic IMF.

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Keywords
Magnetospheric Physics, Substorms, Magnetospheric Physics, Magnetic storms and substorms, Interplanetary Physics, Corotating streams, Magnetospheric Physics, Plasma convection
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Journal of Geophysical Research
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American Geophysical Union
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