dayside
Noun
Meaning
dayside (plural daysides)
(astronomy) The side of a planet that faces towards the sun around which it orbits
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After a brilliant run as Washington night editor, Lara Jakes will be joining us dayside as a deputy editor overseeing the coverage of foreign policy in Washington.
Ions and electrons of the solar wind are deflected by the magnetosphere; solar wind pressure compresses the dayside of the magnetosphere, to about 10 Earth radii, and extends the nightside magnetosphere into a long tail.
Other types of auroras have been observed from space, e.g."poleward arcs" stretching sunward across the polar cap, the related "theta aurora", citation and "dayside arcs" near noon.
The mean dayside temperature would be 275 K. At night, based on Merlis (2010) in a study of aquaplanets, it would be about 246 K. So the global mean temperature would be 260 K, not not 243.3 K, as the single-use SB equation would give.
Chapman and Bartels (1940) illustrated this concept by postulating a plate with infinite conductivity placed on the dayside of a planet’s dipole as shown in the schematic.
On the dayside of Earth, the magnetic field is significantly compressed by the solar wind to a distance of approximately convert.