Quantifying Global Plasmaspheric Images With in situ Observations

M.B. Moldwin
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics and Department of Earth and Space
Sciences, UCLA, Los Angeles CA 90095-1567 USA

B.R. Sandel
Lunar and Planetary Laboratory,University of Arizona, Tucson AZ

M.F. Thomsen and R.C. Elphic
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos NM


Simultaneous IMAGE EUV plasmaspheric images and Magnetospheric Plasma Analyzer 
(MPA) data from the Los Alamos National Laboratory's geosynchronous satellites 
are combined to understand plasmaspheric behavior and to quantify the global 
images. A brief review of the understanding of the plasmasphere as learned from 
in situ observations prior to the launch of IMAGE is given to place the results 
presented here into context.

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Space Science Reviews, in press, 2003