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JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SPACE PHYSICS
Volume 106, Issue A10, Pages 21211-21215Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2001JA900019
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We use five years of Geotail and AMPTE/IRM measurements in the near-Earth magnetotail to compute angles between vectors of fast earthward plasma flow and the local magnetic field. In the low-beta parts of the magnetotail, fast flows were found to be nearly field-aligned with an average angle of similar to 20 degrees. In the high-beta plasma sheet the average angle was larger than 45 degrees. The existence of a substantial convective component in the plasma sheet confirms the importance of the bursty bulk flow phenomenon for the magnetotail convection process.
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