The Plasmaspheric Boundary Layer: Some Present-Day Modeling Issues
Jan J. Sojka
Center for Atmospheric and Space SciencesUtah State University
Logan, Utah
CEDAR Workshop on
Physics at the Plasmaspheric Boundary Layer
Wednesday, 18 June 2008
Zermatt, Midway, Utah
Figure Acknowledgements• Book – Inner Magnetosphere Interactions (ed. James
Burch, Michael Schulz, and Harlan Spence), Geophysical Monograph, 159, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, 2005.
• Book – Ionospheres, R. W. Schunk and A. F. Nagy, Cambridge University Press, U.K., 2000.
• A standard Introduction to Physics with Calculus text book
Photograph of an Einstein Bagel.
Plasmasheric Boundary Layer: Plasmapause
A Dipole Magnetic Field: NOT!
The Standard Plasmasphere View
Important Physics happens at the Boundary Layer, John Foster will tell us about this dynamic redistribution of plasma…. but…..
At the boundary layer and in the plasmasphere the cold plasmaInteracts with hot plasma: radiation belts and the ring current. These hot particles are guided by a “changing” magnetic fields. The cold boundary layer also has a “hot outer zone” that has a rich ion composition. Did I mention E&M waves…..
Humans can modify the plasmasphere…………..
Humans can modify the plasmasphere…………..
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