Testing the hypothesis of the Earth's magnetosphere behaving like an avalanching system

The global auroral dissipation power as observed by the imager on the Polar spacecraft is used as a proxy for the power dissipation of the Earth's magnetosphere to examine whether or not the magnetosphere is an avalanching system. It is found that the probability density distributions for the a...

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Main Author: A. T. Y. Lui
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2004-01-01
Series:Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics
Online Access:http://www.nonlin-processes-geophys.net/11/701/2004/npg-11-701-2004.pdf