supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (2012CB825602);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41231067 and 41204118);in part by the Specialized Research Fund for State Key Laboratories of China
The plasma transport between the plasmasphere and the ionosphere in response to the interplanetary conditions is still not fully understood until now.Simultaneous observations of the plasmasphere and ionosphere from t...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(40874087 and 41031063);the China Meteorology Administration(GYHY201106011);the China Public Science and Technology Research Funds Projects of Ocean(201005017)
The subsolar magnetopause is the boundary between the solar wind and the Earth's magnetosphere,where reduced solar wind dynamic pressure is equal to the magnetic pressure of the Earth's outer magnetosphere.We use a gl...
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 the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. G2006CB806300);National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 40774079 and 40890160);National High-Tech Research & Development Program of China (Grant No. 2007AA12Z314);Special Fund for Public Welfare Industry (me-teorology:GYHY200806024)
In this study, the advantages and the limitations of previous low-latitude magnetopause empirical models are discussed. In order to overcome their limitations and inherit their advantages, a new continuous function fo...