Mesoscale Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling along Open Magnetic Field Lines Associated with Airglow Patches: Field-aligned Currents and Precipitation
Ying Zou1, Yukitoshi Nishimura2, Larry R Lyons3, Kazuo Shiokawa4, Johnathan K Burchill5, David J Knudsen5, Stephan C Buchert6, Steven Chen7, Michael J Nicolls7, J. Michael Ruohoniemi8, Kathryn A McWilliams9 and Nozomu Nishitani4, (1)The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)Nagoya University, Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya, Japan, (5)University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, (6)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, (7)SRI International Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (8)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, United States, (9)University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
