Origin of dawnside subauroral polarization streams during major geomagnetic storms

Dong Lin1, Wenbin Wang1, Viacheslav G Merkin2, Chaosong Huang3, Meers M Oppenheim4, Kareem Sorathia5, Kevin H Pham6, Adam Michael7, Shanshan Bao8, Qian Wu9, Yongliang Zhang10, Michael James Wiltberger11, Frank Toffoletto12, John Lyon13 and Jeffrey Garretson7, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, United States, (2)The Johns Hopkins University, APL, Laurel, United States, (3)Air Force Research Laboratory, Albuquerque, United States, (4)Boston University, Center for Space Physics, Boston, MA, United States, (5)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (6)NCAR, Boulder, United States, (7)The Johns Hopkins University, APL, Laurel, MD, United States, (8)Rice University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Houston, TX, United States, (9)NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, (10)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States, (11)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (12)Rice University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Houston, United States, (13)Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States