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标题：Impact of Precipitating Electrons and Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling Processes on Ionospheric Conductance
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作者：G. V. Khazanov ; R. M. Robinson ; E. Zesta 等
期刊名称：Space Weather
印刷版ISSN：1542-7390
出版年度：2018
卷号：16
期号：7
页码：829-837
DOI：10.1029/2018SW001837
语种：English
出版社：American Geophysical Union
摘要：Modeling of electrodynamic coupling between the magnetosphere and ionosphere depends on accurate specification of ionospheric conductances produced by auroral electron precipitation. Magnetospheric models determine the plasma properties on magnetic field lines connected to the auroral ionosphere, but the precipitation of energetic particles into the ionosphere is the result of a two-step process. The first step is the initiation of electron precipitation into both magnetic conjugate points from Earth's plasma sheet via wave-particle interactions. The second step consists of the multiple atmospheric reflections of electrons at the two magnetic conjugate points, which produces secondary superthermal electron fluxes. The steady state solution for the precipitating particle fluxes into the ionosphere differs significantly from that calculated based on the originating magnetospheric population predicted by magnetohydrodynamic and ring current kinetic models. Thus, standard techniques for calculating conductances from the mean energy and energy flux of precipitating electrons in model simulations must be modified to account for these additional processes. Here we offer simple parametric relations for calculating Pedersen and Hall height-integrated conductances that include the contributions from superthermal electrons produced by magnetosphere-ionosphere-atmosphere coupling in the auroral regions.