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Solar terrestrial coupling through space plasma processes.

DE2001768901

Publication Date	2000
Personal Author	Birn, J.
Page Count	33
Abstract	This is the final report of a three-year, Laboratory-Directed Research and Development (LDRD) project at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). The project investigates plasma processes that govern the interaction between the solar wind, charged particles ejected from the sun, and the earth's magnetosphere, the region above the ionosphere governed by the terrestrial magnetic field. Primary regions of interest are the regions where different plasma populations interact with each other. These are regions of particularly dynamic plasma behavior, associated with magnetic flux and energy transfer and dynamic energy release. The investigations concerned charged particle transport and energization, and microscopic and macroscopic instabilities in the magnetosphere and adjacent regions. The approaches combined space data analysis with theory and computer simulations.
Keywords	Charged particles Solar wind Charged-particle transport Data analysis Earth magnetosphere Energy transfer Ionosphere Magnetic fields Magnetic flux Sun Plasma processes
Source Agency	Technical Information Center Oak Ridge Tennessee
NTIS Subject Category	55A - Aeronomy 84 - Space Technology 46G - Plasma Physics
Corporate Authors	Los Alamos National Lab., NM.; Department of Energy, Washington, DC.
Document Type	Technical Report
NTIS Issue Number	200124
Contract Number	W-7405-ENG-36

Solar terrestrial coupling through space plasma processes.

Solar terrestrial coupling through space plasma processes.
DE2001768901

Publication Date	2000
Personal Author	Birn, J.
Page Count	33
Abstract	This is the final report of a three-year, Laboratory-Directed Research and Development (LDRD) project at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). The project investigates plasma processes that govern the interaction between the solar wind, charged particles ejected from the sun, and the earth's magnetosphere, the region above the ionosphere governed by the terrestrial magnetic field. Primary regions of interest are the regions where different plasma populations interact with each other. These are regions of particularly dynamic plasma behavior, associated with magnetic flux and energy transfer and dynamic energy release. The investigations concerned charged particle transport and energization, and microscopic and macroscopic instabilities in the magnetosphere and adjacent regions. The approaches combined space data analysis with theory and computer simulations.
Keywords	Charged particles Solar wind Charged-particle transport Data analysis Earth magnetosphere Energy transfer Ionosphere Magnetic fields Magnetic flux Sun Plasma processes
Source Agency	Technical Information Center Oak Ridge Tennessee
NTIS Subject Category	55A - Aeronomy 84 - Space Technology 46G - Plasma Physics
Corporate Authors	Los Alamos National Lab., NM.; Department of Energy, Washington, DC.
Document Type	Technical Report
NTIS Issue Number	200124
Contract Number	W-7405-ENG-36