• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Response to Comment on “Tail Reconnection Triggering Substorm Onset”
  • Contributor: Angelopoulos, Vassilis; McFadden, James P.; Larson, Davin; Carlson, Charles W.; Mende, Stephen B.; Frey, Harald; Phan, Tai; Sibeck, David G.; Glassmeier, Karl-Heinz; Auster, Uli; Donovan, Eric; Mann, Ian R.; Rae, I. Jonathan; Russell, Christopher T.; Runov, Andrei; Zhou, Xu-Zhi; Kepko, Larry
  • imprint: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2009
  • Published in: Science
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1126/science.1168045
  • ISSN: 0036-8075; 1095-9203
  • Keywords: Multidisciplinary
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  • Description: <jats:p>Lui challenges our conclusion that magnetic reconnection triggered the onset of a magnetospheric substorm. However, Lui incorrectly uses the auroral electrojet index instead of ground auroral and magnetic field pulsation signatures to determine substorm onset; single velocity and magnetic field components instead of full vectors and particle distributions to identify reconnection onset; and preliminary auroral electrojet–low index (AL) instead of ground magnometer, auroral, and magnetotail data to claim pre-existing activity.</jats:p>