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Empirical modeling of the location of the Earth's magnetopause
Machková, Anna ; Němec, František (advisor) ; Grygorov, Kostiantyn (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on suggesting possible improvements of the existing models of the magnetopause stand-off distance, i.e., on identification of the parameters which are not properly (or not at all) included. Magnetopause is a border between the terrestrial and interplanetary magnetic fields, where the pressure of the Earth's magnetic field balances the solar wind dynamic pressure. In order to analyze the parameters, which have an influence on the magnetopause radial distance, we perform a systematic study of an existing database of 16800 magnetopause crossings registered by 8 different satellites. We focus on the effect of the topology of the terrestrial magnetic field, which is not perfectly dipolar, and whose values close to the subsolar point exhibit significant diurnal and annual variations. Another analyzed phenomenon is the magnetospheric ring current and its influence on the magnetic field strength near the magnetopause. Possible changes of this magnetic field have a direct influence on the magnetopause distance from the Earth. Attention is also devoted to the potentially different positions of the magnetopause at the times of fast and slow solar wind. Finally, we discuss complications related to the satellite orbits and the resulting uneven spatial distribution of the used data set.
Empirical modeling of the location of the Earth's magnetopause
Machková, Anna ; Němec, František (advisor) ; Grygorov, Kostiantyn (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on suggesting possible improvements of the existing models of the magnetopause stand-off distance, i.e., on identification of the parameters which are not properly (or not at all) included. Magnetopause is a border between the terrestrial and interplanetary magnetic fields, where the pressure of the Earth's magnetic field balances the solar wind dynamic pressure. In order to analyze the parameters, which have an influence on the magnetopause radial distance, we perform a systematic study of an existing database of 16800 magnetopause crossings registered by 8 different satellites. We focus on the effect of the topology of the terrestrial magnetic field, which is not perfectly dipolar, and whose values close to the subsolar point exhibit significant diurnal and annual variations. Another analyzed phenomenon is the magnetospheric ring current and its influence on the magnetic field strength near the magnetopause. Possible changes of this magnetic field have a direct influence on the magnetopause distance from the Earth. Attention is also devoted to the potentially different positions of the magnetopause at the times of fast and slow solar wind. Finally, we discuss complications related to the satellite orbits and the resulting uneven spatial distribution of the used data set.

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