Atmospheric dynamo

The Atmospheric dynamo is a pattern of electrical currents that are set up in the Earth's ionosphere by multiple effects, mostly the Sun's solar wind, but also the tides of the Moon and Sun.^[1]^[2] The currents flow in circuits between the poles and the equator, but they are not well understood.^[3]

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Atmospheric electricity

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Electromagnetism

ELF/VLF emissions	Radio atmospherics Whistlers Chorus Hiss

Optical emissions	Transient luminous events Upper-atmospheric lightning Sprites St. Elmo's fire Ball lightning

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Magnetospherics

Submagnetosphere	Atmospheric circulation Aurora Earth's magnetic field Geosphere Jet stream Polar wind

Earth's magnetosphere	Birkeland current Ionosphere Magnetopause Magnetosheath Magnetosphere Magnetosphere chronology Magnetosphere particle motion Plasmasphere Ring current Van Allen radiation belt

Solar wind	Coronal cloud Coronal mass ejection Geomagnetic storm Heliopause Heliosphere Heliospheric current sheet Interplanetary magnetic field Solar flare Space weather

Satellites	Full list Cluster II Double Star Geotail IMAGE MMS (2015) Polar THEMIS Van Allen Probes WIND

Research projects	HAARP SHARE Unwin Radar SuperDARN

Other magnetospheres	Ganymedian Hermian Jovian Lunar Neptunian Saturnian Uranian

Related topics	Flux tube Gas torus Lunar swirls Planetary rings Jupiter Neptune Saturn Uranus

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Atmospheric dynamo

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