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Scientific paper
Nov 1999
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999phpl....6.4178h&link_type=abstract
Physics of Plasmas, Volume 6, Issue 11, pp. 4178-4184 (1999).
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Magnetic Storms, Substorms, Nonlinear Dynamics And Chaos, Nonlinear Phenomena: Waves, Wave Propagation, And Other Interactions
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The solar-wind driven magnetosphere-ionosphere system is a classic example of a complex dynamical system (CDS). The defining properties of a CDS are (1) sensitivity to initial conditions; (2) multiple space-time scales; (3) bifurcation sequences with hysteresis in transitions between attractors; and (4) noncompositionality. Noncompositionality means that the behavior of the system as a whole is different from the dynamics of its subcomponents taken with passive or no couplings. In particular the dynamics of the geomagnetic tail plasma depends on its coupling to the dissipative ionospheric plasma and on the nature of the solar-wind driving electric field over a suitably long (many hours) previous time interval. These complex dynamical system features are shown here in detail using the known WINDMI model for the solar-wind driven magnetosphere-ionosphere (MI) system. Numerous features in the bifurcation sequence are identified with known substorm and storm characteristics.
Cary J.
Crabtree Chris
Doxas Isidoros
Goode Brent
Horton Wendell
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