Variability of ionospheric plasma: results from the ESA swarm mission

AG Wood, L Alfonsi, LBN Clausen, Y Jin, L Spogli… - Space Science …, 2022 - Springer
Swarm is the first European Space Agency (ESA) constellation mission for Earth
Observation. Three identical Swarm satellites were launched into near-polar orbits on 22 …

Quiet, discrete auroral arcs—Observations

T Karlsson, L Andersson, DM Gillies, K Lynch… - Space science …, 2020 - Springer
Quiet, discrete auroral arcs are an important and fundamental consequence of solar wind-
magnetosphere interaction. We summarize the current standing of observations of such …

Physical processes of meso-scale, dynamic auroral forms

C Forsyth, VA Sergeev, MG Henderson… - Space Science …, 2020 - Springer
Meso-scale auroral forms, such as poleward boundary intensifications, streamers, omega
bands, beads and giant undulations, are manifestations of dynamic processes in the …

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 …

Interhemispheric comparisons of large nighttime magnetic perturbation events relevant to GICs

MJ Engebretson, KR Kirkevold… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Nearly all studies of impulsive magnetic perturbation events (MPEs) with large magnetic
field variability (dB/dt) that can produce dangerous geomagnetically induced currents (GICs) …

Meso-scale electrodynamic coupling of the Earth magnetosphere-ionosphere system

Y Yu, J Cao, Z Pu, VK Jordanova, A Ridley - Space Science Reviews, 2022 - Springer
Within the fully integrated magnetosphere-ionosphere system, many electrodynamic
processes interact with each other. We review recent advances in understanding three …

Dawnside auroral polarization streams

J Liu, LR Lyons, CP Wang, MR Hairston… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Although the postmidnight‐to‐dawn sector of the auroral ionosphere contains interesting
dynamic phenomena that may significantly impact the magnetosphere‐ionosphere …

The occurrence of embedded region 1 and 2 currents depends on geomagnetic activity level

J Liu, T Higuchi, LR Lyons, S Ohtani… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Embedded Region 1 and 2 field‐aligned currents (FACs), intense FAC layers of mesoscale
latitudinal width near the interface between large‐scale Region 1 and Region 2 FACs, are …

[HTML][HTML] Automatic classification of mesoscale auroral forms using convolutional neural networks

ZX Guo, JY Yang, MW Dunlop, JB Cao, LY Li… - Journal of Atmospheric …, 2022 - Elsevier
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in deep learning enable the extraction of features in
image data. Through the multi-layer superposition of a convolutional neural network, we can …

Radar observations of flows leading to substorm onset over Alaska

LR Lyons, J Liu, Y Nishimura… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
About 40 years after the discovery of the substorm, auroral observations were used to
propose that substorm onset was triggered in the inner plasmas sheet (equatorward portion …