Spatial distribution of rolled up Kelvin-Helmholtz vortices at Earth’s dayside and flank magnetopause

Cluster Detection of Rolled-up Kelvin-Helmholtz Vortices at the Magnetopause: Comparison with Simulations

1Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA 2Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro, Tokyo, Japan 3Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA 4Centre d’Etude Spatiale Rayonnements, Toulouse, France 5Space and Atmospheric Physics Group, Imperial College, London, UK 6Space Sciences Div...

Diffusion at the Earth magnetopause: enhancement by Kelvin-Helmholtz instability

Using hybrid simulations, we examine how particles can diffuse across the Earth’s magnetopause because of finite Larmor radius effects. We focus on tangential discontinuities and consider a reversal of the magnetic field that closely models the magnetopause under southward interplanetary magnetic field. When the Larmor radius is on the order of the field reversal thickness, we show that particl...

Reply to comment by H. Hasegawa on ‘‘Evolution of Kelvin-Helmholtz activity on the dusk flank magnetopause’’

Ubiquity of Kelvin–Helmholtz waves at Earth's magnetopause

Magnetic reconnection is believed to be the dominant process by which solar wind plasma enters the magnetosphere. However, for periods of northward interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) reconnection is less likely at the dayside magnetopause, and Kelvin-Helmholtz waves (KHWs) may be important agents for plasma entry and for the excitation of ultra-low-frequency (ULF) waves. The relative importanc...

On the Kelvin-helmholtz Instability of the Earth’s Magnetopause

-The effect of the finite thickness of the shear layer on the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability of the Earth’s magnetopause boundary is investigated. The thickness of the layer stabilizes the boundary with respect to short wavelength perturbations, which were previously found to be unstable in the zero thickness analysis. Compressibility effects further stabilize the layer. The effects of the magnet...