Fig. 6

FPC vectors in the post-noon sector of the equatorial plane at 5.5 min. \({\nabla }_{\perp }\cdot {{\varvec{J}}}_{\perp }\) values in the equatorial plane are shown with color shading. The red circle indicates the equatorial projection of the region where the cross-magnetopause current exists. The type L current flows across the magnetopause in this region. In contrast, the blue ellipse indicates the equatorial projection of the region where the type H current system converts from the FPC to the FAC. It is evident that the current exhibits negative divergence (\(\nabla \cdot {{\varvec{J}}}_{\perp }<0\)) in the blue ellipse