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Magnetospheric Physics at Southampton

  • Lead researcher:
    Professor Robert Fear
  • Research funder:
    Science And Technology Facilities Council
  • Status:
    Not active

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Robert Fear

Professor

Research interests

  • Magnetic reconnection
  • Large-scale solar wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling
  • Global magnetospheric dynamics

Research outputs

Semi-annual, annual and Universal Time variations in the magnetosphere and in geomagnetic activity
Mike Lockwood,
Mathew J. Owens,
Luke A. Barnard,
Clare E. Watt,
Chris J. Scott,
John C. Coxon,
& Kathryn A. McWilliams
, 2020 , Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate , 10
DOI: 10.1051/swsc/2020062
Type: article
Signatures of magnetic separatrices at the borders of a crater flux transfer event connected to an active x-line
L. Trenchi,
J.C. Coxon,
R.C. Fear,
J.P. Eastwood,
M.W. Dunlop,
K. J. Trattner,
D.J. Gershman,
D.B. Graham,
Y. Khotyaintsev,
& B. Lavraud
, 2019 , Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics
DOI: 10.1029/2018JA026126
Type: article
Properties of Magnetic Reconnection and FTEs on the Dayside Magnetopause With and Without Positive IMF Bx Component During Southward IMF
S. Hoilijoki,
U. Ganse,
D. G. Sibeck,
P. A. Cassak,
L. Turc,
M. Battarbee,
R. C. Fear,
X. Blanco-Cano,
A. P. Dimmock,
E. K.J. Kilpua,
R. Jarvinen,
L. Juusola,
Y. Pfau-Kempf,
& M. Palmroth
, 2019 , Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics
DOI: 10.1029/2019JA026821
Type: article
Timescales of Birkeland currents driven by the IMF
John C. Coxon,
Robert M. Shore,
Mervyn P. Freeman,
Robert C. Fear,
Stephen D. Browett,
Andrew W. Smith,
Daniel K. Whiter,
& Brian J. Anderson
, 2019 , Geophysical Research Letters , 46 (14) , 1--9
DOI: 10.1029/2018GL081658
Type: article
The contribution of flux transfer events to Mercury's Dungey cycle
Robert Fear,
John Coxon,
& Caitriona Jackman
, 2019 , Geophysical Research Letters , 46 (24) , 14239--14246
DOI: 10.1029/2019GL085399
Type: article