Collective phenomena in the inner magnetosphere

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Nov 1999

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999phpl....6.4195b&link_type=abstract

Physics of Plasmas, Volume 6, Issue 11, pp. 4195-4199 (1999).

Physics

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Magnetic Storms, Substorms

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The Earth's magnetosphere exhibits substantial complexity in many of its physical properties. Particle populations wax and wane and magnetic fields fluctuate on virtually all observed time scales, from less than 1 minute to many days. Much of the variability of the magnetosphere and its interaction with the ionosphere can be ascribed to the phenomena termed ``substorms'' and ``storms.'' Ample evidence is found that these geospace disturbances, though exhibiting event-to-event differences, are remarkably repetitive and have basic underlying similarities. The ring current development, radiation belt particle changes, and basic substorm patterns suggest a high degree of coherence in the phenomena. Observations, modeling, and basic physical properties are discussed here that point to a relatively ordered, low-dimensional underlying dynamics in the magnetosphere. These results suggest that nonlinear processes and couplings introduce much of the observed complexity in magnetospheric particle and field changes.

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