INFINA (EX INFIP) 05545
INSTITUTO DE FISICA INTERDISCIPLINARIA Y APLICADA
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
artículos
Título:
Large amplitude perturbations and waves at the duskside LLBL of the magnetopause generated by an interplanetary tangential discontinuity on December 7, 2000
Autor/es:
GRATTON, F. T.; FARRUGIA, C. J.; BILBAO, L.; GNAVI, G.; LUND, E. J.
Revista:
AIP CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Editorial:
American Institute of Physics
Referencias:
Año: 2006 vol. 875 p. 300 - 303
ISSN:
0094-243X
Resumen:
On December 7, 2000 a joint current sheeth and vorticity layer hit the magnetopause (MP) generating large amplitude oscillations, and wave-like perturbations observed by CLUSTER at the near dusk flank. Linear stability theory and MHD numerical simulations support the hypothesis that the waves were due to the Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instability. The simulation brings in light novel dynamic properties of the boundary layer under the KH excitation.
