準周期地磁気変動時の対流電場と過遮蔽電場.pdfVIP

中緯度短波レーダー研究会（名古屋、2008.12.8） 準周期地磁気変動時の対流電場と 準周期地磁気変動時の対流電場と 過遮蔽電場 過遮蔽電場 菊池崇（名大STEL、NICT ）、海老原祐輔(名大高 菊池崇（名大STEL、NICT ）、海老原祐輔(名大高 等研究院）、橋本久美子（吉備国際大）、片岡龍峰 等研究院）、橋本久美子（吉備国際大）、片岡龍峰 （理研）、堀智昭（STEL)、西谷望（名大STEL)、亘 （理研）、堀智昭（STEL)、西谷望（名大STEL)、亘 慎一(NICT) 慎一(NICT) Motivation • The quasi-periodic DP2 geomagnetic fluctuations with periods of 30 - 60 min occurred coherently at high latitudes and dayside geomagnetic equator (Nishida et al., 1966), being caused by fluctuations in the southward IMF (Nishida, 1968). • High coherency of the DP2 fluctuation at these two latitudes suggested that the convection electric field penetrated instantaneously to the equator with no significant shielding (Kikuchi et al., 1996). • No significant shielding has also been observed over several hours during storm main phase (Huang et al., 2005, 2007) • On the other hand, the shielding electric field became significant in 17-20 min during substorm growth phase (Somayajulu et al., 1987; Kikuchi et al., 2000) and 1 hour during storm main phase (Kikuchi et al., 2008). • Furthermore, the overshielding due to dominant shielding electric field occurred when the convection electric field reduced its intensity during substorms (Kikuchi et al., 2000, 2003; Kobea et al., 2000) and during storm recovery phase (Kikuchi et al., 2008). • A question may arise on a contribution of the shielding/overshielding electric field in the quasi-periodic DP2 fluctuation. In this paper • We selected a DP2 fluctuation event with period of 30 min that was recorded at the dayside geomagnetic equator before substantial development of the ring current of the geomagnetic storm on December 14-15, 2006. • It is found that the