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Millstone Hill radar azimuth scans have been used to map the large-scale features of the ionospheric convection pattern in the vicinity of the cusp and cleft. Each scan covers 5 hours of MLT and 20° of invariant latitude, Λ, with 30 minute temporal resolution Individual “snapshots” of the convection pattern for disturbed conditions on 31 January 1982 span the entire region of convection convergence near noon and compare favorably with average model representations of the dayside region. The characteristic features of ion and electron precipitation observed during satellite overflights of the radar field of view are used to identify the cusp and cleft and to relate the location of these magnetospheric features to the pattern of ionospheric convection electric field. Cusp precipitation is seen at 70°Λ and 09 MLT at the sunward/anti-sunward convection reversal immediately after a sudden turning of interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) By from -5 nT to +5 nT while IMF Bz was-10 nT.
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Foster, J.C., Yeh, HC., Holt, J.M., Evans, D.S. (1989). Two-Dimensional Mapping of Dayside Convection. In: Sandholt, P.E., Egeland, A. (eds) Electromagnetic Coupling in the Polar Clefts and Caps. NATO ASI Series, vol 278. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0979-3_8
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