Dawn–dusk asymmetries in the coupled solar wind–magnetosphere–ionosphere system: a review

@article{Walsh2014DawnduskAI,  title={Dawn–dusk asymmetries in the coupled solar wind–magnetosphere–ionosphere system: a review},  author={Andrew P. Walsh and Stein Haaland and Colin Forsyth and Amy M. Keesee and Jennifer Kissinger and K. Li and Andrei Runov and Jan Sou{\vc}ek and B. M.Walsh and Simon Wing and Matthew G. G. T. Taylor},  journal={Annales Geophysicae},  year={2014},  volume={32},  pages={705-737},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:55038191}}
Abstract. Dawn–dusk asymmetries are ubiquitous features of the coupled solar-wind–magnetosphere–ionosphere system. During the last decades, increasing availability of satellite and ground-based measurements has made it possible to study these phenomena in more detail. Numerous publications have documented the existence of persistent asymmetries in processes, properties and topology of plasma structures in various regions of geospace. In this paper, we present a review of our present knowledge… 

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