🌎 Solar Wind & Magnetosphere

Dynamic pressure—
Magnetopause standoff—
Bow shock standoff—
Magnetosonic Mach—
Reconnection status—
Geomagnetic activity—
Solar wind Shocked (sheath) Reconnected
Pressure balance (Shue et al. 1997)
Pdyn = 1.67×10⁻⁶ n v² [nPa]
r₀ = (10.22 + 1.29 tanh[0.184(Bz+8.14)]) Pdyn-1/6.6