Mesoscale phenomena and their contribution to the global response: a focus on the magnetotail transition region and magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling

C Gabrielse, M Gkioulidou, S Merkin… - Frontiers in Astronomy …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
An important question that is being increasingly studied across subdisciplines of
Heliophysics is “how do mesoscale phenomena contribute to the global response of the …

Multiscale dynamics in the high‐latitude ionosphere

Y Nishimura, Y Deng, LR Lyons… - Ionosphere …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This chapter reviews recent findings of multi‐scale structures and dynamics in the high‐
latitude ionosphere, particularly on meso‐scale (10s‐100s km) processes, as well as their …

Challenges to understanding the Earth's ionosphere and thermosphere

RA Heelis, A Maute - Journal of Geophysical Research: Space …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We discuss, in a limited way, some of the challenges to advancing our understanding and
description of the coupled plasma and neutral gas that make up the ionosphere and …

Rainbow of the night: First direct observation of a SAR arc evolving into STEVE

C Martinis, I Griffin, B Gallardo‐Lacourt… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
During the 17 March 2015 geomagnetic storm, citizen scientist observations from Dunedin
(45.95° S, 170.32° E), New Zealand, revealed a bright wide red arc known as stable auroral …

Auroral drivers of large dB∕ dt during geomagnetic storms

Y Zou, C Dowell, B Ferdousi, LR Lyons, J Liu - Space Weather, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Forecasting geomagnetically induced currents (GICs) remains a difficult challenge, and
open questions hindering our understanding include when and where GICs become large …

Obtaining continental‐scale, high‐resolution 2‐d ionospheric flows and application to meso‐scale flow science

Y Nishimura, LR Lyons, Y Deng… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
An approach for creating continental‐scale, multi‐scale plasma convection maps in the
nightside high‐latitude ionosphere using the spherical elementary current systems …

Association of equatorward extending auroral streamers with ground magnetic perturbations and geosynchronous injections

S Yadav, LR Lyons, J Liu, Y Nishimura… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Auroral streamers have been found to be a particularly important cause of magnetic
perturbations within the auroral oval during substorms. We present a detailed investigation …

Mesoscale auroral curls in Antarctica

XY Li, QG Zong, ZJ Hu, YF Wang, JJ Liu… - Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The morphology and motion of auroras have been widely studied due to their indications on
magnetospheric processes. Here, we report a new kind of “auroral curls,” which have …

Association of auroral streamers and bursty bulk flows during different states of the magnetotail: A case study

B Ferdousi, J Raeder, E Zesta… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In‐situ measurements in the magnetotail are sparse and limited to single points. On the
other hand, there is a broad range of observations, including magnetometers, aurora …

[HTML][HTML] Association of mesoscale auroral structures and breakups with energetic particle injections at geosynchronous orbit

MG Henderson - Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Geomagnetic substorms are associated with characteristic energetic particle injection
signatures at geosynchronous orbit that are often dispersionless in both electrons and ions …