Interplay of bubble injections in the plasma sheet dynamics as inferred from RCM-I simulations
- Southern University of Science and Technology, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Shenzhen, China (sadeghzadeh@sustech.edu.cn)
Understanding the transport of hot plasma from tail towards the inner magnetosphere is of great importance to improve our perception of the near-Earth space environment. In accordance with the recent observations, the contribution of bursty bulk flows (BBFs)/bubbles in the inner plasma sheet especially in the storm-time ring current formation is nonnegligible. These high-speed plasma flows with depleted flux tube/entropy are likely formed in the mid tail due to magnetic reconnection and injected earthward as a result of interchange instability. In this presentation, we investigate the interplay of these meso-scale structures on the average magnetic field and plasma distribution in various regions of the plasma sheet, using the Inertialized Rice Convection Model (RCM-I). We will discuss the comparison of our simulation results with the observational statistics and data-based empirical models.
How to cite: Sadeghzadeh, S. and Yang, J.: Interplay of bubble injections in the plasma sheet dynamics as inferred from RCM-I simulations, EGU General Assembly 2020, Online, 4–8 May 2020, EGU2020-2120, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-2120, 2020