Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
Comment
. 2009 Jun 12;324(5933):1391.
doi: 10.1126/science.1168045.

Comment on "Tail reconnection triggering substorm onset"

A T Y Lui  1
Affiliations
Comment

Comment on "Tail reconnection triggering substorm onset"

A T Y Lui. Science. .

Abstract

Angelopoulos et al. (Research Articles, 15 August 2008, p. 931) reported that magnetic reconnection in Earth's magnetotail triggered the onset of a magnetospheric substorm. We provide evidence that (i) near-Earth current disruption, occurring before the conventional tail reconnection signatures, triggered the onset; (ii) the observed auroral intensification and tail reconnection are not causally linked; and (iii) the onset they identified is a continuation of earlier substorm activities.

PubMed Disclaimer

Comment on

  • Tail reconnection triggering substorm onset.
    Angelopoulos V, McFadden JP, Larson D, Carlson CW, Mende SB, Frey H, Phan T, Sibeck DG, Glassmeier KH, Auster U, Donovan E, Mann IR, Rae IJ, Russell CT, Runov A, Zhou XZ, Kepko L. Angelopoulos V, et al. Science. 2008 Aug 15;321(5891):931-5. doi: 10.1126/science.1160495. Epub 2008 Jul 24. Science. 2008. PMID: 18653845

Publication types

LinkOut - more resources