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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Analysis of geomagnetic storms and substorms with the WINDMI model

Spencer, Edmund Augustus. January 1900 (has links) (PDF)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2006. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
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Modeling the Plasma Convection in Saturn's Inner Magnetosphere

Liu, Xin 16 September 2013 (has links)
Saturn's magnetosphere is unique in the solar system. The rotation-driven convection consists of alternating channels of cool plasma from an interior source moving outward and hot plasma from outside moving inward, making Saturn’s inner magnetosphere a dynamical region. This thesis describes work on developing numerical models to simulate the plasma convection pattern in Saturn's inner magnetosphere. Chapter 2 introduces the numerical Rice Convection Model (RCM), a multi-fluid model that was originally developed for Earth’s magnetosphere. We adapt it for Saturn’s conditions in this thesis. In Chapter 3, we show results of initial RCM simulation runs, in which only cool plasma from the interior source is considered. We also include the Coriolis force and the pickup effect. Because the cool plasma is much denser than the hot plasma and always dominant in determining the convection pattern, it is important and necessary to investigate it first. Chapter 4 compares several cool plasma source models and determines the one that produces the best simulation results when compared to Cassini spacecraft observations. In Chapter 5, we add the finite temperature and associated plasma pressure of the cool plasma. The effect of ionospheric Pedersen conductance is also investigated. Finally in Chapter 6, we add hot plasma at the outer boundary, and simulate the V-shape signatures of the injection-dispersion events, which are considered the most definitive evidence of rotation-driven convection in Saturn's inner magnetosphere. Our simulations conform to the observed fact that wider, slower outflow channels of cooler, denser plasma alternate with narrower, faster inflow channels of hotter, more tenuous plasma. Comparisons between simulated and observed results show great consistency.
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A Dynamic Coupled Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Ring Current Model

Pembroke, Asher 16 September 2013 (has links)
In this thesis we describe a coupled model of Earth's magnetosphere that consists of the Lyon-Fedder-Mobarry (LFM) global magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulation, the MIX ionosphere solver and the Rice Convection Model (RCM). We report some results of the coupled model using idealized inputs and model parameters. The algorithmic and physical components of the model are described, including the transfer of magnetic field information and plasma boundary conditions to the RCM and the return of ring current plasma properties to the LFM. Crucial aspects of the coupling include the restriction of RCM to regions where field-line averaged plasma-beta <=1, the use of a plasmasphere model, and the MIX ionosphere model. Compared to stand-alone MHD, the coupled model produces a substantial increase in ring current pressure and reduction of the magnetic field near the Earth. In the ionosphere, stronger region-1 and region-2 Birkeland currents are seen in the coupled model but with no significant change in the cross polar cap potential drop, while the region-2 currents shielded the low-latitude convection potential. In addition, oscillations in the magnetic field are produced at geosynchronous orbit with the coupled code. The diagnostics of entropy and mass content indicate that these oscillations are associated with low-entropy flow channels moving in from the tail and may be related to bursty bulk flows and bubbles seen in observations. As with most complex numerical models, there is the ongoing challenge of untangling numerical artifacts and physics, and we find that while there is still much room for improvement, the results presented here are encouraging. Finally, we introduce several new methods for magnetospheric visualization and analysis, including a fluid-spatial volume for RCM and a field-aligned analysis mesh for the LFM. The latter allows us to construct novel visualizations of flux tubes, drift surfaces, topological boundaries, and bursty-bulk flows.
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Fluid and particle simulations of the interaction of the solar wind with magnetic anomalies on the surface of the Moon and Mars /

Harnett, Erika Megan. January 2003 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2003. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-140).
35

Analysis of geomagnetic storms and substorms with the WINDMI model

Spencer, Edmund Augustus 28 August 2008 (has links)
Not available / text
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New Perspectives on Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Coupling

Sundberg, Torbjörn January 2011 (has links)
The streaming plasma in the solar wind is a never ending source of energy, plasma, and momentum for planetary magnetospheres, and it continuously drives large-scale plasma convection systems in our magnetosphere and over our polar ionosphere. This coupling between the solar wind and the magnetosphere is primarily explained by two different processes: magnetic reconnection at high latitudes, which interconnects the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) with the planetary dipole field, and low-latitude dynamos such as viscous interaction, where the streaming plasma in the solar wind may trigger waves and instabilities at the flanks of the magnetosphere, and thereby allow solar wind plasma to enter into the system.This work aims to further determine the nature and properties of these driving dynamos, both by statistical studies of their relative importance for ionospheric convection at Earth, and by assessment and analysis of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability at Mercury, utilizing data from the MESSENGER spacecraft's first and third flyby of the planet.It is shown that the presence of the low-latitude dynamos is primarily dependent on the IMF direction: the driving is close to non-existent when the IMF is southward, but increases to the order of a third of the total ionospheric driving when the IMF turns northward (here, the magnitude of the driving is also shown to be dependent on the viscous parameters in the solar wind). The work also discusses the saturation of the reconnection generated potential, and shows that the terrestrial response follows a non-linear behavior for strong solar wind driving both when the IMF is southward and northward.Comparative studies of different magnetospheres provide an excellent path for increasing our understanding of space-related phenomena. Here, study of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability at Mercury allows us to investigate how the different parameters of the system affect the mass, energy, and momentum transfer at the flanks of the magnetosphere. The large ion gyro radius expected is shown to develop a dawn-dusk asymmetry in the growth rates, with the dawn side as the more unstable of the two. This effect should be particularly visible when the planet is close to perihelion. Mercury's smaller scale size combined with the relatively high spacecraft velocity is also shown to provide excellent opportunities for studying the spatial structure of the waves, and a vortex reconstruction that can explain all the large-scale variations in the Kelvin-Helmholtz waves observed during MESSENGER's third Mercury flyby is presented. / QC 20110405
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Low-dimensional dynamics of the earth's magnetosphere /

Smith, James Paul, January 1999 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 1999. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 157-163). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.
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Quantitative studies of terrestrial plasmaspheric dynamics enabled by the IMAGE spacecraft

Larsen, Brian Arthur. January 2007 (has links) (PDF)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Montana State University--Bozeman, 2007. / Typescript. Chairperson, Graduate Committee: David M. Klumpar. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 102-108).
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Multi-instrument study of the hourly pulsations in Saturn’s magnetosphere

Palmaerts, Benjamin 31 May 2017 (has links)
No description available.
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Dynamics of the polar cap boundary and the auroral oval in the nightside ionosphere

Pitkänen, T. (Timo) 31 May 2011 (has links)
Abstract The high-latitude polar ionosphere is characterized by two regions, the polar cap and the auroral oval. In the polar cap, the geomagnetic field lines are open and connect to the solar wind, whereas the field lines in the auroral oval are closed and map to the plasma sheet and the plasma sheet boundary layer in the magnetosphere. The two substantially different magnetic and plasma domains are separated by a separatrix, the polar cap boundary (PCB), which is an ionospheric projection of the open-closed field line boundary (OCB) in the magnetosphere. In this thesis, a new method to determine the location of the PCB in the nightside ionosphere based on electron temperature measurements by EISCAT incoherent scatter radars is introduced. Comparisons with other PCB proxies like poleward boundary of the auroral emissions, poleward edge of the auroral electrojets and poleward boundary of energetic particle precipitation show general agreement. By applying the method to several events together with other supporting ground-based and space-borne observations, dynamic processes and phenomena in the vicinity of the PCB and inside the auroral oval are studied. The main results include the following. During substorm expansion, the PCB moves poleward in a burstlike manner with individual bursts separated by 2&#8211;10 min, indicating impulsive reconnection in the magnetotail. In one event, a possible signature of the high-altitude counterpart of the Earthward flowing field-aligned current of the Hall current system at the magnetotail reconnection site is observed. Investigation of the relation between the auroral activity and the local reconnection rate estimated from the EISCAT measurements reveals direct association between individual auroral poleward boundary intensifications (PBIs) and intensifications in the ionospheric reconnection electric field within the same MLT sector. The result confirms earlier suggestions of positive correlation between PBIs and enhanced flux closure in the magnetotail. In another event, quiet-time bursty bulk flows (BBFs) and their ionospheric signatures are studied. The BBFs are found to be consistent with the so called "bubble" model with Earthward fast flows inside the region of depleted plasma density (bubble). The tailward return flows show an interesting asymmetry in plasma density. Whereas the duskside return flows show signatures of a depleted wake, consistent with a recent suggestion, no similar feature is seen for the dawnside return flows, but rather increase in density. The BBFs are associated with auroral streamers in the conjugate ionosphere, consistently with previous findings. The related ionospheric plasma flow patterns are interpreted as ionospheric counterpart of the BBF flows, excluding the dawnside return flows which could not be identified in the ionosphere. The BBFs and streamers are found to appear during an enhanced reconnection electric field in the magnetotail.

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