Abstract
Relationships between the North-South asymmetry of the geomagnetic activity associated with the sector polarity of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) and various solar wind parameters are examined using the subauroral zone magnetic activity indices an and as. It is found that: (1) the effect of the sector polarity of IMF on the North-South asymmetry is due to the By-component of IMF, not to the Bx-component; (2) the asymmetry appears only when IMF is directed southward, being augmented by the increment of the magnitudes of the southward component and the solar wind velocity.
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