Publication Date:
2022-04-22
Description:
An accurate understanding of dissimilarities in geomagnetic variability between quiet and
disturbed periods has the potential to vastly improve space weather diagnosis. In this work, we
exploit some recently developed methods of dynamical system theory to provide new insights and
conceptual ideas in space weather science. In particular, we study the co-variation and recurrence
statistics of two geomagnetic indices, SYM-H and AL, that measure the intensity of the globally symmetric
component of the equatorial electrojet and that of the westward auroral electrojet, respectively.
We find that the number of active degrees of freedom, required to describe the phase space dynamics
of both indices, depends on the geomagnetic activity level. When the magnetospheric substorm
activity, as monitored by the AL index, increases, the active number of degrees of freedom increases
at high latitudes above the dimension obtained through classical time delay embedding methods.
Conversely, a reduced number of degrees of freedom is observed during geomagnetic storms at low
latitude by analysing the SYM-H index. By investigating time-dependent relations between both
indices we find that a significant amount of information is shared between high and low latitude
current systems originating from coupling mechanisms within the magnetosphere–ionosphere system
as the result of a complex interplay between processes and phenomena of internal origin activated by
the triggering of external source processes. Our observations support the idea that the near-Earth
electromagnetic environment is a complex system far from an equilibrium
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Published
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226
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1A. Geomagnetismo e Paleomagnetismo
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JCR Journal
Keywords:
Space weather
;
geomagnetic storms
;
magnetospheric substorms
;
geomagnetic indices
;
04.05. Geomagnetism
Repository Name:
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
Type:
article
