Virtual sounding of solar-wind effects on the AU and AL indices based on
an echo state network model
Abstract
The properties of the auroral electrojets are studied by modeling the
relationships between the solar-wind parameters and the AU and
AL indices with a trained echo state network (ESN), a kind of
recurrent neural network. To identify the properties of auroral
electrojets, we obtain various synthetic AU and AL data by
using various artificial inputs with the trained ESN. The synthetic data
show that the AU and AL indices are significantly affected
by the solar-wind speed in addition to Bz of the
interplanetary magnetic field (IMF). A contributions from IMF
By is are also suggested. In addition, the
synthetic data indicate nonlinear effects from the solar-wind density,
which is strong when the solar-wind speed is high and when IMF
Bz is near zero.