substorm current wedge

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A sudden disruption of an azimuthally confined section of enhanced current across a magnetotail and its diversion to the auroral ionosphere via field-aligned currents.

Word forms

substorm current wedge substorm current wedges
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