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SCW

SCW is the initialism of substorm current wedge.

Meaning of substorm current wedge

Noun

substorm current wedge (plural substorm current wedges)

  1. A sudden disruption of an azimuthally confined section of enhanced current across a magnetotail and its diversion to the auroral ionosphere via field-aligned currents.
    • In particular, the relative contributions of ionospheric Pedersen and Hall currents to field-aligned currents are evaluated in hoping to shed some new light on the ionospheric closure of the substorm current wedge.2000, Shin-ichi Ohtani, Ryoichi Fujii, Michael Hesse, Magnetospheric Current Systems, page 199

Forms of SCW

pluralSCWs

Questions about SCW

What is SCW the initialism of?
SCW is the initialism of substorm current wedge.

Words near SCW in the dictionary

  1. scuzzoid
  2. scuzzoids
  3. scuzzos
  4. scuzzy
  5. SCV
  6. SCW
  7. SCWP
  8. SCWS
  9. scybala
  10. scybalas
  11. scybalous

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Adapted from Wiktionary: SCW (page history and authors); substorm current wedge (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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