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IT is generally recognised that the Earth's magnetic tail and the plasma sheet play a vital role in the processes responsible for the observational phenomenon known as the magnetospheric substorm. Many different models1–5 of substorm behaviour have been described with differing degrees of success, and to propose another requires some justification. A new model, if it is to be useful, must do two things. It must be specific enough to make quantitative theoretical analysis possible, and it must fit the morphological features more completely or in a more elegant way than other models. In addition, it should be distinctive enough from other models to be separated from them by observational tests. I believe the model presented here has those properties.
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JOHNSTONE, A. A model of the magnetospheric substorm. Nature 250, 552–553 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/250552a0
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