W. P. Olson

TL;DR: In this paper, a model of the magnetic field associated with the magnetopause currents and the distributed currents (tail and quiet time ring currents) has been developed based on quiet time data averaged over all "tilt angle" values.

Abstract: : This report describes work that has been performed within the last year on the modeling of the disturbed magnetospheric magnetic field. The reasons for developing quantitative magnetospheric models are twofold: first, there are many model users who have practical needs. Their requirements are to specify and to predict such things as: radiation dose in the earth orbital environment, fluctuations in ionospheric electron density, variations in the earth's upper atmosphere density, and the impact of magnetic storms on loading changes in electrical power grids. The second set of model users have technical and scientific needs. They use the magnetic field models in studies of other magnetospheric, ionospheric, and upper atmospheric phenomena, or to understand the interactions of magnetospheric magnetic and electric fields with particle populations. This report should be the last of a series quantitatively describing the magnetospheric magnetic field. Some of the history of the magnetic field work that leads to the efforts pursued this last year is described. (Author)

TL;DR: In this article, three geostationary satellites, GEOS 2, 1976-059, 1977-007, located near noon, near midnight, and 0400 LT, respectively, observed the global energetic particle signatures produced by the storm sudden commencement (SSC) at 0826 UT on March 22, 1979.

TL;DR: A quantitative model of the magnetospheric magnetic field and associated procedures for accurately cataloging charged-particle data out to and beyond geosynchronous orbit is developed in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, a vector representation of the magnetospheric field was developed specifically for the complex event of July 29, 1977, where the magnetic field associated with each of the three major magnetosphere current systems was controlled by solar wind and interplanetary field parameters and a magnetic index.