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Journal articleEastwood JP, Kataria DO, McInnes CR, et al., 2015,
Sunjammer
, WEATHER, Vol: 70, Pages: 27-30, ISSN: 0043-1656- Author Web Link
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- Citations: 10
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Journal articleDel Zanna L, Matteini L, Landi S, et al., 2015,
Parametric decay of parallel and oblique Alfvén waves in the expanding solar wind
, Journal of Plasma Physics, Vol: 81, ISSN: 0022-3778<jats:p>The long-term evolution of large-amplitude Alfvén waves propagating in the solar wind is investigated by performing two-dimensional MHD simulations within the expanding box model. The linear and nonlinear phases of the parametric decay instability are studied for both circularly polarized waves in parallel propagation and for arc-polarized waves in oblique propagation. The non-monochromatic case is also considered. In the oblique case, the direct excitation of daughter modes transverse to the local background field is found for the first time in an expanding environment, and this transverse cascade seems to be favored for monochromatic mother waves. The expansion effect reduces the instability growth rate, and it can even suppress its onset for the lowest frequency modes considered here, possibly explaining the persistence of these outgoing waves in the solar wind.</jats:p>
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Journal articleSparks N, Toumi R, 2015,
Numerical Simulations of Daytime Temperature and Humidity Crossover Effects in London
, BOUNDARY-LAYER METEOROLOGY, Vol: 154, Pages: 101-117, ISSN: 0006-8314- Author Web Link
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- Citations: 4
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Journal articleMasters A, 2015,
Magnetic reconnection at Neptune's magnetopause
, JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SPACE PHYSICS, Vol: 120, Pages: 479-493, ISSN: 2169-9380- Author Web Link
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- Citations: 18
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Journal articleLeitner S, Valavanoglou A, Brown P, et al., 2015,
Design of the Magnetoresistive Magnetometer for ESA's SOSMAG Project
, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MAGNETICS, Vol: 51, ISSN: 0018-9464- Author Web Link
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- Citations: 13
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Book chapterCargill P, 2015,
Magnetic Reconnection in the Solar Corona: Historical Perspective and Modern Thinking
, MAGNETOSPHERIC PLASMA PHYSICS: THE IMPACT OF JIM DUNGEY'S RESEARCH, Editors: Southwood, Cowley, Mitton, Publisher: SPRINGER, Pages: 221-251, ISBN: 978-3-319-18358-9 -
Journal articleSitch S, Friedlingstein P, Gruber N, et al., 2015,
Recent trends and drivers of regional sources and sinks of carbon dioxide
, BIOGEOSCIENCES, Vol: 12, Pages: 653-679, ISSN: 1726-4170- Author Web Link
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- Citations: 541
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Journal articleMushtaq S, Steers EBM, Whitby JA, et al., 2015,
A glow discharge time-of-flight mass spectrometry (GD-TOFMS) study of the 'hydrogen effect' using copper, iron and titanium cathodes
, JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL ATOMIC SPECTROMETRY, Vol: 30, Pages: 1774-1781, ISSN: 0267-9477- Author Web Link
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- Citations: 6
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Book chapterMitchell DG, Brandt PC, Carbary JF, et al., 2015,
Injection, Interchange, and Reconnection: Energetic Particle Observations in Saturn's Magnetosphere
, MAGNETOTAILS IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM, Editors: Keiling, Jackman, Delamere, Publisher: BLACKWELL SCIENCE PUBL, Pages: 327-343, ISBN: 978-1-118-84234-8- Author Web Link
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- Citations: 35
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Journal articleForsyth C, Watt CEJ, Rae IJ, et al., 2014,
Increases in plasma sheet temperature with solar wind driving during substorm growth phases
, GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, Vol: 41, Pages: 8713-8721, ISSN: 0094-8276- Author Web Link
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- Citations: 19
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Journal articleBanks JR, Brindley HE, Hobby M, et al., 2014,
The daytime cycle in dust aerosol direct radiative effects observed in the central Sahara during the Fennec campaign in June 2011
, JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES, Vol: 119, Pages: 13861-13876, ISSN: 2169-897X- Author Web Link
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- Citations: 15
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Journal articleBrown P, Whiteside BJ, Beek TJ, et al., 2014,
Space magnetometer based on an anisotropic magnetoresistive hybrid sensor
, Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol: 85, ISSN: 1089-7623 -
Journal articleMistry R, Eastwood JP, Hietala H, 2014,
Detection of small-scale folds at a solar wind reconnection exhaust
, Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, Vol: 120, Pages: 30-42, ISSN: 2169-9402Observations of reconnection in the solar wind over the last few years appear to indicate that the majority of large-scale reconnecting current sheets are roughly planar, and that reconnection itself is quasi-steady. Most studies of solar wind exhausts have used spacecraft with large separations and relatively low time cadence ion measurements. Here we present multipoint Cluster observations of a reconnection exhaust and the associated current sheet at ACE and Wind, enabling it to be studied on multiple length scales and at high time resolution. While analysis shows that on large scales the current sheet is planar, detailed measurements using the four closely spaced Cluster spacecraft show that the trailing edge of the reconnection jet is nonplanar with folds orthogonal to the reconnection plane, with length scales of approximately 230 ion inertial lengths. Our findings thus suggest that while solar wind current sheets undergoing reconnection may be planar on large scales, they may also exhibit complex smaller-scale structure. Such structure is difficult to observe and has rarely been detected because exhausts are rapidly convected past the spacecraft in a single cut; there is therefore a limited set of spacecraft trajectories through the exhaust which would allow the nonplanar features to be intercepted. We consider how such nonplanar reconnection current sheets can form and the processes which may have generated the 3-D structure that was observed.
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Journal articleArcher MO, Turner DL, Eastwood JP, et al., 2014,
Global impacts of a Foreshock Bubble: Magnetosheath, magnetopause and ground-based observations
, Planetary and Space Science, Vol: 106, Pages: 56-66, ISSN: 1873-5088Using multipoint observations we show, for the first time, that Foreshock Bubbles (FBs) have a global impact on Earth׳s magnetosphere. We show that an FB, a transient kinetic phenomenon due to the interaction of backstreaming suprathermal ions with a discontinuity, modifies the total pressure upstream of the bow shock showing a decrease within the FB׳s core and sheath regions. Magnetosheath plasma is accelerated towards the intersection of the FB׳s current sheet with the bow shock resulting in fast, sunward, flows as well as outward motion of the magnetopause. Ground-based magnetometers also show signatures of this magnetopause motion simultaneously across at least 7 h of magnetic local time, corresponding to a distance of 21.5RE transverse to the Sun–Earth line along the magnetopause. These observed global impacts of the FB are in agreement with previous simulations and in stark contrast to the known localised, smaller scale effects of Hot Flow Anomalies (HFAs).
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Journal articleDen Hartog EA, Ruffoni MP, Lawler JE, et al., 2014,
Fe I oscillator strengths for transitions from high-lying even-parity levels
, Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Vol: 215, Pages: 1-13, ISSN: 0067-0049New radiative lifetimes, measured to ±5% accuracy, are reported for 31 even-parity levels of Fe I ranging from 45061 cm–1 to 56842 cm–1. These lifetimes have been measured using single-step and two-step time-resolved laser-induced fluorescence on a slow atomic beam of iron atoms. Branching fractions have been attempted for all of these levels, and completed for 20 levels. This set of levels represents an extension of the collaborative work reported in Ruffoni et al. The radiative lifetimes combined with the branching fractions yields new oscillator strengths for 203 lines of Fe I. Utilizing a 1D-LTE model of the solar photosphere, spectral syntheses for a subset of these lines which are unblended in the solar spectrum yields a mean iron abundance of langlog[ε(Fe)]rang = 7.45 ± 0.06.
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Journal articleSouthwood D, 2014,
Space science and policy
, ASTRONOMY & GEOPHYSICS, Vol: 55, Pages: 26-32, ISSN: 1366-8781 -
Journal articleGenestreti KJ, Fuselier SA, Goldstein J, et al., 2014,
The location and rate of occurrence of near-Earth magnetotail reconnection as observed by Cluster and Geotail
, JOURNAL OF ATMOSPHERIC AND SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS, Vol: 121, Pages: 98-109, ISSN: 1364-6826- Author Web Link
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- Citations: 28
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Journal articleQureshi MNS, Nasir W, Masood W, et al., 2014,
Terrestrial lion roars and non-Maxwellian distribution
, JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SPACE PHYSICS, Vol: 119, ISSN: 2169-9380- Author Web Link
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- Citations: 58
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Journal articleHunt GJ, Cowley SWH, Provan G, et al., 2014,
Field-aligned currents in Saturn's southern nightside magnetosphere: Subcorotation and planetary period oscillation components
, JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SPACE PHYSICS, Vol: 119, ISSN: 2169-9380- Author Web Link
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- Citations: 85
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Journal articleMasters A, Achilleos N, Agnor CB, et al., 2014,
Neptune and Triton: Essential pieces of the Solar System puzzle
, PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE, Vol: 104, Pages: 108-121, ISSN: 0032-0633- Author Web Link
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- Citations: 27
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Journal articleCoustenis A, Atreya S, Castillo J, et al., 2014,
Surfaces, atmospheres and magnetospheres of the outer planets and their satellites and ring systems: Part X Preface
, PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE, Vol: 104, Pages: 1-2, ISSN: 0032-0633 -
Journal articleBalogh A, Hudson HS, Petrovay K, et al., 2014,
Introduction to the Solar Activity Cycle: Overview of Causes and Consequences
, SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS, Vol: 186, Pages: 1-15, ISSN: 0038-6308- Author Web Link
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- Citations: 35
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Journal articleArridge CS, Achilleos N, Agarwal J, et al., 2014,
The science case for an orbital mission to Uranus: Exploring the origins and evolution of ice giant planets
, PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE, Vol: 104, Pages: 122-140, ISSN: 0032-0633- Author Web Link
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- Citations: 48
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Journal articleChen CHK, Leung L, Boldyrev S, et al., 2014,
Ion-scale spectral break of solar wind turbulence at high and low beta
, GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, Vol: 41, Pages: 8081-8088, ISSN: 0094-8276- Author Web Link
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- Citations: 126
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Journal articleVigren E, Galand M, Yelle RV, et al., 2014,
Ionization balance in Titan's nightside ionosphere
, Icarus, Vol: 248, Pages: 539-546, ISSN: 0019-1035 -
Journal articleLacombe C, Alexandrova O, Matteini L, et al., 2014,
Whistler mode waves and the electron heat flux in the Solar wind: cluster observations
, The Astrophysical Journal: an international review of astronomy and astronomical physics, Vol: 796, Pages: 1-11, ISSN: 0004-637XThe nature of the magnetic field fluctuations in the solar wind between the ion and electron scales is still under debate. Using the Cluster/STAFF instrument, we make a survey of the power spectral density and of the polarization of these fluctuations at frequencies f in [1, 400] Hz, during five years (2001-2005), when Cluster was in the free solar wind. In ~10% of the selected data, we observe narrowband, right-handed, circularly polarized fluctuations, with wave vectors quasi-parallel to the mean magnetic field, superimposed on the spectrum of the permanent background turbulence. We interpret these coherent fluctuations as whistler mode waves. The lifetime of these waves varies between a few seconds and several hours. Here, we present, for the first time, an analysis of long-lived whistler waves, i.e., lasting more than five minutes. We find several necessary (but not sufficient) conditions for the observation of whistler waves, mainly a low level of background turbulence, a slow wind, a relatively large electron heat flux, and a low electron collision frequency. When the electron parallel beta factor β e∥ is larger than 3, the whistler waves are seen along the heat flux threshold of the whistler heat flux instability. The presence of such whistler waves confirms that the whistler heat flux instability contributes to the regulation of the solar wind heat flux, at least for β e∥ ≥ 3, in slow wind at 1 AU.
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Journal articleWeiss Z, Steers EBM, Pickering JC, et al., 2014,
Excitation and transition rate diagrams of singly ionized iron in analytical glow discharges in argon, neon and an argon-hydrogen mixture
, JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL ATOMIC SPECTROMETRY, Vol: 29, Pages: 2078-2090, ISSN: 0267-9477- Author Web Link
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- Citations: 11
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Journal articleBall WT, Krivova NA, Unruh YC, et al., 2014,
A new SATIRE-S spectral solar irradiance reconstruction for solar cycles 21-23 and its implications for stratospheric Ozone
, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, Vol: 71, Pages: 4086-4101, ISSN: 0022-4928The authors present a revised and extended total and spectral solar irradiance (SSI) reconstruction, which includes a wavelength-dependent uncertainty estimate, spanning the last three solar cycles using the Spectral and Total Irradiance Reconstruction—Satellite era (SATIRE-S) model. The SSI reconstruction covers wavelengths between 115 and 160 000 nm and all dates between August 1974 and October 2009. This represents the first full-wavelength SATIRE-S reconstruction to cover the last three solar cycles without data gaps and with an uncertainty estimate. SATIRE-S is compared with the Naval Research Laboratory Spectral Solar Irradiance (NRLSSI) model and ultraviolet (UV) observations from the Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) Solar Stellar Irradiance Comparison Experiment (SOLSTICE). SATIRE-S displays similar cycle behavior to NRLSSI for wavelengths below 242 nm and almost twice the variability between 242 and 310 nm. During the decline of the last solar cycle, between 2003 and 2008, the SSI from SORCE SOLSTICE versions 12 and 10 typically displays more than 3 times the variability of SATIRE-S between 200 and 300 nm. All three datasets are used to model changes in stratospheric ozone within a 2D atmospheric model for a decline from high solar activity to solar minimum. The different flux changes result in different modeled ozone trends. Using NRLSSI leads to a decline in mesospheric ozone, while SATIRE-S and SORCE SOLSTICE result in an increase. Recent publications have highlighted increases in mesospheric ozone when considering version 10 SORCE SOLSTICE irradiances. The recalibrated SORCE SOLSTICE version 12 irradiances result in a much smaller mesospheric ozone response than that of version 10, and this smaller mesospheric ozone response is similar in magnitude to that of SATIRE-S. This shows that current knowledge of variations in spectral irradiance is not sufficient to warrant robust conclusions concerning the impact of solar variability on th
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Journal articleMushtaq S, Steers EBM, Pickering JC, et al., 2014,
Enhancement of analyte atomic lines with excitation energies of about 5 eV in the presence of molecular gases in analytical glow discharges
, JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL ATOMIC SPECTROMETRY, Vol: 29, Pages: 2022-2026, ISSN: 0267-9477- Author Web Link
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- Citations: 8
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Journal articleMushtaq S, Steers EBM, Pickering JC, et al., 2014,
Effect of small quantities of oxygen in a neon glow discharge
, JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL ATOMIC SPECTROMETRY, Vol: 29, Pages: 2027-2041, ISSN: 0267-9477- Author Web Link
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- Citations: 12
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