Stanley W. H. Cowley

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relationship between the ionospheric flow and the North-South (Bz) component of the IMF and found that clear relationships do exist between the flow and Bz, but the form of the relations depends strongly on latitude and local time.

TL;DR: In this article, the properties of plasmoids and in the postplasmoid plasma sheet in the distant geomagnetic tail by the energetic particle anisotropy spectrometer was investigated and compared with simultaneous thermal electron and magnetic field data.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors make use of this distinction to discuss recent observations of vortical flow patterns in the dayside auroral ionosphere in terms of one or other of the proposed mechanisms, and conclude that some of the observations reported are consistent only with the predicted signature of FTEs.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the flows and currents in Saturn's polar ionosphere which are implied by a three-component picture of large-scale magnetospheric flow driven both by planetary rotation and the solar wind interaction, and provide theoretical arguments which indicate that the flow should drop to considerably smaller values on open field lines in the polar cap.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the nature of the plasma flow in Jupiter's high-latitude ionosphere, and point out that the region of open field lines associated with the Dungey-cycle should be a region of near-stagnation in the ionosphere in the rest frame of the dipole, compared with surrounding regions of few-km s−1 sub-corotational flow.