supported by the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (KZZD-EW-01-4, KZCX2-EW-QN501);National Natural Science Foundation of China (41074118, 40890163,41121003)
There exists large-scale lightning in Saturn's water cloud. Based on the powerful moist convection in the water cloud, we establish a thermal-induced convective model to interpret the mechanism for the processes of ch...
supported by NSFC grants(41028003 and 40890163);NSF grants(ATM-0852682 and ATM-0646442);NSF grant ATM0902730;NASA grant NNX10AK97G to Auburn University;at PPPL by NASA grants(NNG07EK69I,NNH07AF37I,NNH09AM53I,NNH09AK63I,and NNH11AQ46I);DOE con-tract DE-AC02-09CH11466
Two-dimensional(2-D)and three-dimensional(3-D)hybrid simulations are carried out for mode conversion from fast mode compressional wave to kinetic Alfvn waves(KAWs)at the inhomogeneous magnetopause boundary.For cases i...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(40890163);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities;the Specialized Research Fund for State Key Laboratories,Chinese Academy of Sciences
Magnetic reconnection is an important universal plasma dissipation process that converts magnetic energy into plasma thermal and kinetic energy,and simultaneously changes the magnetic field topology.In this paper,we r...
supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(2006CB806305);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(40874088 and 40890163);the Special Fund for Public Welfare Industry(GYHY200806072);State-level Public Welfar Scientific Research Ccourtyard Basic Scentific Research Operation Cost(058904)
Using the east-west geomagnetic disturbance fields observed from stations at mid-latitudes,we investigate the characteristics of field-aligned currents on the nightside during the April 6,2000 superstorm.The results i...
Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 40674092, 40890163);the Foundation of Key Project of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. KJCX2-YW-T13-3)
The neutral wind dynamo contributes significantly to the ionospheric electrodynamics, and the variation of the neutral winds thus affects the ionosphere. Here we study the effects of the seasonal variation of the wind...