Magnetospheric convection

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magnetospheric convection

Motion induced in the plasma of the outer magnetosphere by interaction with the solar wind.

Magnetospheric convection in turn induces motions in the high-latitude ionosphere through linkage along the direction of the geomagnetic field.

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