New Way of Characterizing the State of the Ring Current

Richard Wolf1, Shanshan Bao2, Matina Gkioulidou3, Jian Yang4 and Frank Toffoletto2, (1)Rice University, Physics and Astronomy Department, Houston, TX, United States, (2)Rice University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Houston, TX, United States, (3)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (4)Southern University of Science and Technology, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Shenzhen, China