A blob-filament (or simply “blob”) is a magnetic-field-aligned plasma structure which is
considerably denser than the surrounding background plasma and highly localized in the …

One of the most important problems in meteorology, physical oceanography, climatology,
and related fields is the understanding and dynamical description of multi-scale interactions …

Single-point measurements of fluctuations in the scrape-off layer of magnetized plasmas are
generally found to be dominated by large-amplitude bursts which are associated with radial …

In this paper we propose an algorithm to distinguish between light-and heavy-tailed
probability laws underlying random datasets. The idea of the algorithm, which is visual and …

In Ohmic heated low confinement mode (L-mode) discharges, the intermittent statistical
characteristics of turbulent fluctuations have been investigated in the edge and the scrape …

The TORPEX basic plasma physics device at the Center for Plasma Physics Research
(CRPP) in Lausanne, Switzerland is described. In TORPEX, simple magnetized toroidal …

We use more than 7 years of Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during
Substorms observations to quantify the non‐Gaussian properties associated with mirror …

Fluid reductions of the Vlasov–Ampère equations that preserve the Hamiltonian structure of
the parent kinetic model are investigated. Hamiltonian closures using the first four moments …

This letter provides a theoretical interpretation of numerically generated probability density
functions (PDFs) of intermittent plasma transport events. Specifically, nonlinear gyrokinetic …

This paper is aimed to contribute to the scientific discussions that have been triggered by the
experimental observation of a quadratic relation between the kurtosis and skewness of …