The Earth's magnetosphere: a systems science overview and assessment

JE Borovsky, JA Valdivia - Surveys in geophysics, 2018 - Springer
A systems science examination of the Earth's fully interconnected dynamic magnetosphere
is presented. Here the magnetospheric system (aka the magnetosphere–ionosphere …

The effect of solar-wind turbulence on magnetospheric activity

R D'Amicis, D Telloni, R Bruno - Frontiers in Physics, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The solar wind is a highly turbulent medium exhibiting scalings of the fluctuations ranging
over several decades of scales from the correlation length down to proton and electron …

Recurrence‐based quantification of dynamical complexity in the Earth's magnetosphere at geospace storm timescales

RV Donner, G Balasis, V Stolbova… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Magnetic storms are the most prominent global manifestations of out‐of‐equilibrium
magnetospheric dynamics. Investigating the dynamical complexity exhibited by …

Evolution of Dynamical Complexities in Geospace as Captured by Dst Over Four Solar Cycles 1964–2008.

ST Ogunjo, AB Rabiu, IA Fuwape… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The dynamical complexities of geospace has been examined by investigating the
characteristic chaotic properties of hourly Dst values obtained from the World Data Center …

Spatial distribution of the eddy diffusion coefficients in the plasma sheet during quiet time and substorms from THEMIS satellite data

M Stepanova, V Pinto, JA Valdivia… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
During the last decade, a number of studies have shown that turbulent processes in the
plasma sheet are very important for the analysis of the formation of quasi‐stable plasma …

Outstanding questions in magnetospheric plasma physics: The pollenzo view

JE Borovsky, GL Delzanno, JA Valdivia… - Journal of Atmospheric …, 2020 - Elsevier
Based on discussions held at a workshop in Bra-Pollenzo, Italy, this paper elaborates upon
19 outstanding questions of plasma physics in the Earth's magnetosphere. The questions …

Complexity Heliophysics: A lived and living history of systems and complexity science in Heliophysics

RM McGranaghan - Space Science Reviews, 2024 - Springer
This review examines complexity science in the context of Heliophysics, describing it not as
a discipline, but as a paradigm. In the context of Heliophysics, complexity science is the …

Solar cycles: A tutorial

X Moussas, JM Polygiannakis… - Advances in Space …, 2005 - Elsevier
The Sun is the nearest stellar and astrophysical laboratory, available for detailed studies in
several fields of physics and astronomy. It is a sphere of hot gas with a complex and highly …

Some properties of sandpile models as prototype of self-organized critical systems

MN Najafi, S Tizdast, J Cheraghalizadeh - Physica Scripta, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper is devoted to the recent advances in self-organized criticality (SOC), and the
concepts. The paper contains three parts; in the first part we present some examples of SOC …

The magnetosphere as a complex system

JA Valdivia, J Rogan, V Muñoz, BA Toledo… - Advances in Space …, 2013 - Elsevier
The magnetosphere is a multi-scale spatio-temporal complex dynamical system. In this
context, we have analyzed the multifractal behavior of the AL index, as a proxy for an energy …