Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 40390150, 40674094 and 40523006, and the National Basic Research Programme of China under Grant No 2006CB806305.
Measurements of energetic particles obtained by the two geosynchronous satellites (1991-080 and LANL-97A) are performed to investigate the plasma injection boundary and source region during the magnetospheric substo...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 40621003, 40674091 and 40374057, and the International Collaboration Research Team Programme of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Field-aligned current (FAC) density distribution at the plasma sheet boundary layers is statistically studied. The FAC is calculated by the so-called curlometer technique with the data from FGM onboard the four Clus...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 40474064 and 40404012, and the 0utstanding Youth Foundation of Education Bureau of Hunan Province under Grant No 04B003.
The enhanced growth rate of whistler mode waves has been evaluated during an injection event associated with an isolated terrestrial substorm that occurred at 23:00 UT, on January 21, 1991. The electron phase space d...