substorm current wedges

A form of substorm current wedge — A sudden disruption of an azimuthally confined section of enhanced current across a magnetotail and its diversion to the auroral ionosphere via field-aligned currents.

Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of substorm current wedge
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