@inproceedings{Taylor:2006,
author = {Taylor, MGGT and Lavraud, B and Thomsen, MF and Fazakerley, AN and Dunlop, MW and Davies, JA and Escoubet, CP and Laakso, H and Khan, H and Masson, A and Opgenoorth, HJ and Friedel, RH and Rème, H and Carr, CM and Zhang, TL and Lucek, EA},
pages = {421--427},
title = {Multi-satellite observations of the near earth plasma sheet and flank magnetopause: Response to the 5 <sup>TH</sup> December 2004 CME},
year = {2006}
}

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - On 5 th December 2004 after an extended period of weakly northward/dawnward directed interplanetary magnetic field (IMF), a coronal mass ejection (CME) impacted the Earth's magnetosphere. The interplanetary magnetic cloud was characterised by an extended (> 12 hours) period of northward IMF (although initially with a clock angle ∼ 45 degrees) and a rapid solar wind dynamic pressure increase from 1-9 nPa. During this time numerous magnetospheric spacecraft were operational: The ESA Cluster spacecraft were inbound from the southern hemisphere, dusk-flank magnetosheath; on the same flank, the CNSA/ESA TC-1 spacecraft was skimming the magnetopause; closer to the Earth, the CNSA/ESA TC-2 spacecraft was in the northern hemisphere lobe/mantle/plasma sheet boundary region at an altitude of about 5 Earth Radii and we also made use of multipoint measurements from the LANL geosynchronous spacecraft. From previous studies, the impinging Solar wind/IMF conditions characterising this event (northward IMF and compressed magnetosphere) are conducive to the delivery of cold dense plasma sheet (CDPS) material into the near-Earth region. In this case study we investigate the possible source and means of formation of this material and put it in context with other recent CDPS studies.
AU  - Taylor,MGGT
AU  - Lavraud,B
AU  - Thomsen,MF
AU  - Fazakerley,AN
AU  - Dunlop,MW
AU  - Davies,JA
AU  - Escoubet,CP
AU  - Laakso,H
AU  - Khan,H
AU  - Masson,A
AU  - Opgenoorth,HJ
AU  - Friedel,RH
AU  - Rème,H
AU  - Carr,CM
AU  - Zhang,TL
AU  - Lucek,EA
EP  - 427
PY  - 2006///
SN  - 0379-6566
SP  - 421
TI  - Multi-satellite observations of the near earth plasma sheet and flank magnetopause: Response to the 5 <sup>TH</sup> December 2004 CME
ER  - 

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