Multiscale coupling of sun-earth processes

✍ Scribed by Giuseppe Consolini

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 527
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Many approaches exist for scientific investigations and space research is no exception. The early approach during which each space plasma region within the Sun-Earth system was investigated separately with physics-based tools has now progressed to encompass investigations on coupling between these regions. Ample evidence now exists indicating the dynamic processes in these regions exhibit disturbances over a wide range of scales both in time and space. This new reckoning naturally leads to an emerging perspective of probing these natural phenomena with concepts and tools developed in modern statistical mechanics for physical processes governing the evolution of out-of-equilibrium and complex systems.These new developments have prompted a topical conference on Sun-Earth connection, held on February 9-13, 2004 at Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, USA, with the goal of promoting interactions among scientists practicing the traditional physics-based approach and those utilizing modern statistical techniques.This monograph is a product of this conference, a compilation of thirty-nine articles assembled into seven chapters: (1) multiscale features in complexity dynamics, (2) space storms, (3) magnetospheric substorms, (4) turbulence and magnetic reconnection, (5) modeling and coupling of space phenomena, (6) techniques for multiscale space plasma problems, and (7) present and future multiscale space missions. These articles show a diversity of space phenomena exhibiting scale free characteristics, intermittency, and non-Gaussian distributions of probability density function of fluctuations in the physical parameters of the Sun-Earth system. The scope covers the latest observations, theories, simulations, and techniques on the multiscale nature of Sun-Earth phenomena and underscores the usefulness in cross-disciplinary exchange needed to unravel the underlying physical processes, which may eventually lead to a possible unified description and prediction for space disturbances. * Extensive collection of state-of-the-art papers on multiscale coupling of Sun-Earth Processes Present and future multiscale space missions New techniques and models for performing multiscale analysis

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Complexity in Space Plasmas T. Chang, S.W.Y.Tam, and C.-C.Wu......Page 14
Intermittency in Space Plasma Turbulence R. Bruno, V. Carbone, L. Sorriso-Valvo, E. Pietropaolo, and B. Bavassano......Page 20
Scale-dependent Anisotropy of Magnetic Fluctuations in the Earth's Plasma Sheet Z. Voros, W. Baumjohann, R. Nakamura, A. Runov, M. Volwerk, A. Balogh, and H. Reme......Page 40
How Does the Solar Wind Power the Magnetosphere During Geo-effective High Speed Streams? M. Kessel and X. Shao......Page 50
On the Identification of SOC Dynamics in the Sun-Earth System R. Woodard, D.E. Newman, R. Sanchez, and B.A. Carreras......Page 66
Long-Standing Unsolved Problems in Solar Physics and Magnetospheric Phyiscs S.-I. Akasofu......Page 82
Space Weather Effects on SOHO and its Leading Role as a Space Weather Watchdog P. Brekke, B. Fleck, S.V. Haugan, T. van Overbeek, and H. Schweitzer, and B. Simonin......Page 94
Statistical Precursors to Space Storm Onset I A. Wanliss......Page 110
Solar Wind Drivers for Steady Magnetospheric Convection R.L. McPherron, T.P. O'Brien, and S. Thompson......Page 124
Geoeffectiveness of Shocks in Populating the Radiation Belts J.B. Blake, P.L. Slocum, J.E. Mazur, M.D. Looper, R.S. Selesnick, and K. Shiokawa......Page 136
Coupling of Relativistic Electrons in the Inner Magnetosphere to Space Weather Phenomena T. Obara, T. Goka, and H. Matsumoto......Page 146
The Lowest Possible Latitude of the Westward Electrojet During Severely Disturbed Periods B.-H. Ahn, G.X. Chen, W. Sun, J.W. Gjerloev, Y. Kamide, J.B. Sigwarth, and L.A. Frank......Page 156
Global Dayside Ionospheric Response to Interplanetary Electric Fields: Plasma Uplift and Increases in Total Electron Content A.J. Mannucci, B.T. Tsurutani......Page 168
What Determines the Intensity of Magnetospheric Substorms? Y. Kamide......Page 186
Roles of Chaos, Self-Organized Criticality and Phase Transitions in Magnetospheric Physics M.I. Sitnov, A.Y. Ukhorskiy, A.S. Sharma, and R.S. Weigel......Page 206
Substorm Onset Caused by the Two State Transition of the Magnetosphere T. Tanaka......Page 228
Explosive Instabilities and Substorm Intensifications in the Earth's Magnetotail J.C. Samson and P. Dobias......Page 246
Substorm Auroral Morphology During Geomagnetic Storms on 19-20 April 2002 X.-Y. Zhou and S.B.Mende......Page 264
Periodic Substorms: A New Periodicity of 2-3 Hours in the Magnetosphere C.-S. Huang and G.D. Reeves......Page 276
Magnetic Field Fluctuations in the Plasma Sheet Region: A Statistical Approach G. Consolini and M. Kretzschmar......Page 294
Numerical Simulations of Solar Wind Turbulence M.L. Goldstein, D.A. Roberts, and A.V. Usmanov......Page 312
Intermittent Turbulence in 2D MHD Simulation C.C. Wu and T. Chang......Page 332
Intermittency and Self-Similarity in 'Natural Parameters' in Solar Wind Turbulence S.C. Chapman, B. Hnat, and G. Rowlands......Page 340
Acceleration of Particles by Lower-Hybrid Waves in Space Plasmas R. Bingham, V.D. Shapiro, P.K. Shukla......Page 354
Substorm Disturbance Propagation From a Two-Dimensional Cellular Automaton Model A.T.Y. Lui and G. Consolini......Page 368
A Perspective E+VxB=0 From the Special Theory of Relativity G.K. Parks......Page 376
Energization of Ions by Bimodal Intermittent Fluctuations S.W.Y. Tarn and T. Chang......Page 386
A Physics-Based Software Framework for Sun-Earth Connection Modeling G. Toth, O. Volberg, A.J. Ridley, T.I. Gombosi, D. De Zeeuw, K.C. Hansen, D.R. Chesney, Q.F. Stout, K.G. Powell, K.J. Kane, and R.C. Oehmke......Page 394
A Comparative Study of Probability Distribution Functions and Burst Lifetime Distributions of 5, and AE at Solar Maximum and Minimum R. D'Amicis, R. Bruno, and U. Villante......Page 410
The Daytime Cusp Aurora in the O('D) Emission Observed by WINDII on UARS S.P. Zhang and G.G. Shepherd......Page 422
The Wavelength of Slow MHD Waves Observed in the Night-side Plasma Sheet A. Nakamizo......Page 432
WINDMI: A Family of Physics Network Models for Storms and Substorms W. Horton, M.J. Mithaiwala, E.A. Spencer, and I. Doxas......Page 442
A Three-Fluid Model of Solar Wind-Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere Coupling P. Song, V.M. Vasyliunas, and L. Ma......Page 458
3D Plasma Structures Observed by the Four Cluster Spacecraft C.P. Escoubet, H. Laakso, and M. Goldstein......Page 470
The Central Role of Reconnection in Space Plasma Phenomena Targeted by the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission S.A. Curtis, P.E. Clark, and C.Y. Cheung......Page 484
Multiscale Geospace Physics in Canada W. Liu, J. Burchill, L. Cogger, E. Donovan, G. James, D. Kendall, D. Knudsen, J. Lu, I. Mann, R. Michaud, S. Murphree, R. Rankin, J. Samson, E. Spanswick, G. Sofko, T. Trondsen, and A. Yau......Page 498
A Chinese-European Mutliscale Mission: The Double Star Program Z.X. Liu, P. Escoubet, and J.B. Cao......Page 520
Author Index......Page 526