Kelvin Helmholtz instability in planetary magnetospheres

JR Johnson, S Wing, PA Delamere - Space Science Reviews, 2014 - Springer
Kelvin–Helmholtz instability plays a particularly important role in plasma transport at
magnetospheric boundaries because it can control the development of a turbulent boundary …

Review of solar wind entry into and transport within the plasma sheet

S Wing, JR Johnson, CC Chaston, M Echim… - Space Science …, 2014 - Springer
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 …

Challenges to understanding the Earth's ionosphere and thermosphere

RA Heelis, A Maute - Journal of Geophysical Research: Space …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We discuss, in a limited way, some of the challenges to advancing our understanding and
description of the coupled plasma and neutral gas that make up the ionosphere and …

[HTML][HTML] A space hurricane over the Earth's polar ionosphere

QH Zhang, YL Zhang, C Wang, K Oksavik… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
In Earth's low atmosphere, hurricanes are destructive due to their great size, strong spiral
winds with shears, and intense rain/precipitation. However, disturbances resembling …

Dawn–dusk asymmetries in the coupled solar wind–magnetosphere–ionosphere system: A review

AP Walsh, S Haaland, C Forsyth… - Annales …, 2014 - angeo.copernicus.org
Dawn–dusk asymmetries are ubiquitous features of the coupled solar-wind–magnetosphere–
ionosphere system. During the last decades, increasing availability of satellite and ground …

Kinetic simulations of electron acceleration by dispersive scale Alfvén waves in Jupiter's magnetosphere

PA Damiano, PA Delamere, B Stauffer… - Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Electron acceleration by dispersive scale Alfvén waves at Jupiter is investigated using a
Gyrofluid‐Kinetic‐Electron model. Specifically, the simulations consider the propagation of …

Assessing the global Alfvén wave power flow into and out of the auroral acceleration region during geomagnetic storms

A Keiling, S Thaller, J Wygant, J Dombeck - Science Advances, 2019 - science.org
Geomagnetic storms are large space weather events with potentially tremendous societal
implications. During these storms, the transfer of energy from the solar wind into geospace is …

Broadband energization of superthermal electrons in Jupiter's inner magnetosphere

D Coffin, P Damiano, P Delamere… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The Juno spacecraft in a polar orbit around Jupiter has observed broadband electron
energization signatures at high latitudes (Mauk et al., 2017, https://doi. org/10.1038 …

Structure of magnetospheric current systems and mapping of high latitude magnetospheric regions to the ionosphere

EE Antonova, M Stepanova, IP Kirpichev… - Journal of Atmospheric …, 2018 - Elsevier
The structures of the main magnetospheric current systems are interesting to researchers
because of their key role in magnetospheric physics, including the generation of …

Plasma pressure distribution in the surrounding the Earth plasma ring and its role in the magnetospheric dynamics

EE Antonova, IP Kirpichev, MV Stepanova - Journal of Atmospheric and …, 2014 - Elsevier
We analyzed the characteristics of the plasma region surrounding the Earth at the geocentric
distances between 6 and 15R E using the data of THEMIS mission from April 2007 to …