The magnetosphere as a complex system

The magnetosphere is a complex system, with multi-scale spatio-temporal behavior. Self-organization is a possible solution to two seemingly contradicting observations: (a) the repeatable and coherent substorm phenomena, and, (b) the underlying self-similar turbulent behavior in the plasma sheet. Suc...

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Published inAdvances in space research Vol. 35; no. 5; pp. 961 - 971
Main Authors Valdivia, J.A., Rogan, J., Muñoz, V., Gomberoff, L., Klimas, A., Vassiliadis, D., Uritsky, V., Sharma, S., Toledo, B., Wastavino, L.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier Ltd 2005
Subjects
Intermittency
Magnetosphere
Self-organization
Space plasmas
Substorms
Substorms
Magnetosphere
Space plasmas
Self-organization
Intermittency
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Summary:The magnetosphere is a complex system, with multi-scale spatio-temporal behavior. Self-organization is a possible solution to two seemingly contradicting observations: (a) the repeatable and coherent substorm phenomena, and, (b) the underlying self-similar turbulent behavior in the plasma sheet. Such states, are seen to emerge naturally in a plasma physics model with sporadic dissipation, through spatio-temporal chaos.
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ISSN:0273-1177
1879-1948
DOI:10.1016/j.asr.2005.03.144