Abstract
From July to October 2001, the Cluster satellites were located within the magnetotail and crossings of the neutral sheet were frequently observed by the FGM instrument [Balogh et al., 2001]. The neutral sheet often appears to be moving relative to the spacecraft. Multiple crossings of the neutral sheet on August 3, 2001 are analysed. These neutral sheet crossings were rather unusual. Spacecraft 2, which is in the northwestern part of the Cluster tetrahedron, leads the crossing from the north to the south lobe which implies a strongly twisted magnetotail on a local scale. Examining the solar wind interplanetary magnetic field conditions, we postulate that a wavy motion in the dawn‐dusk direction is superimposed on an extremely twisted and warped neutral sheet.
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