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 …

Solar wind spatial scales in and comparisons of hourly Wind and ACE plasma and magnetic field data

JH King, NE Papitashvili - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Hourly averaged interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) and plasma data from the Advanced
Composition Explorer (ACE) and Wind spacecraft, generated from 1 to 4 min resolution data …

Improved ionospheric electrodynamic models and application to calculating Joule heating rates

DR Weimer - Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Improved techniques have been developed for empirical modeling of the high‐latitude
electric potentials and magnetic field‐aligned currents (FAC) as a function of the solar wind …

The Lyon–Fedder–Mobarry (LFM) global MHD magnetospheric simulation code

JG Lyon, JA Fedder, CM Mobarry - Journal of Atmospheric and Solar …, 2004 - Elsevier
This paper describes in some detail the inner workings of the Lyon–Fedder–Mobarry (LFM)
global magnetospheric simulation code. The code was designed with a number of criteria in …

Flux tube texture of the solar wind: Strands of the magnetic carpet at 1 AU?

JE Borovsky - Journal of Geophysical Research: Space …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
It is argued here that the inner heliosphere is filled with a network of entangled magnetic flux
tubes and that the flux tubes are fossil structures that originate at the solar surface. 65,860 …

Observation of two distinct, rapid loss mechanisms during the 20 November 2003 radiation belt dropout event

J Bortnik, RM Thorne, TP O'Brien… - Journal of …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
The relativistic electron dropout event on 20 November 2003 is studied using data from a
number of satellites including SAMPEX, HEO, ACE, POES, and FAST. The observations …

Solar wind—Magnetosphere coupling functions: Pitfalls, limitations, and applications

M Lockwood - Space weather, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Solar wind‐magnetosphere coupling functions have now been in use for almost 50 years. In
that time, a very large number of formulations have been proposed. As they become …

Wind/waves observations of auroral kilometric radiation: Automated burst detection and terrestrial solar wind‐magnetosphere coupling effects

AR Fogg, CM Jackman, JE Waters… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Auroral Kilometric Radiation (AKR) is the strongest terrestrial radio emission, and
emanates from the same electron acceleration regions from which particles precipitate into …

Penetration electric fields: Efficiency and characteristic time scale

CS Huang, S Sazykin, JL Chau, N Maruyama… - Journal of Atmospheric …, 2007 - Elsevier
Penetration of the interplanetary electric field (IEF) to the middle-and low-latitude ionosphere
has been investigated for nearly four decades. Most previous studies focused on the …

What magnetospheric and ionospheric researchers should know about the solar wind

JE Borovsky - Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 2020 - Elsevier
Multiple properties of the solar wind that affect the earth are summarized in this overview. 13
specific solar-wind parameters that influence geomagnetic activity, the plasma sheet, the …