The plasma sheet is populated in part by the solar wind plasma. Four solar entry
mechanisms are examined:(1) double cusp or double lobe reconnection,(2) Kelvin …

Many phenomena in the Earth's magnetotail have characteristic temporal scales of several
minutes and spatial scales of a few Earth radii (RE). Examples of such transient and …

Examination of Geotail measurements in the near‐tail (X>− 30 RE) has revealed the
presence of small flux ropes in the plasma sheet. A total of 73 flux rope events were …

We quantify the contributions of different convection states to the magnetic flux throughput of
the magnetosphere during 2010. To do this we provide a continuous classification of …

Observations of the Earth's magnetotail made by the four Cluster spacecraft on October 2
2003 are presented. Multi‐spacecraft analysis is used to show that the variations in field and …

We examine the variation in the radius of the auroral oval, as measured from auroral images
gathered by the Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) spacecraft …

We have obtained a state‐of‐the‐art picture of substorm‐associated evolution of the near‐
Earth magnetotail and the inner magnetosphere for understanding the substorm triggering …

The energy transport of bursty bulk flows (BBFs) is very important to the understanding of
substorm energy transport. Previous studies all use the MHD bulk parameters to calculate …

We quantify the amount of open magnetic flux in the magnetosphere from observations of
the auroral polar cap on a near‐continuous basis for a period of 18 days, 20 August to 6 …

Unlike most cosmic plasma structures, planetary magnetospheres can be extensively
studied in situ. In particular, studies of the Earth's magnetosphere over the past few decades …