Spreading evidence suggests that geomagnetic field (GMF) modulates artificial magnetic fields biological effect and associated with increased cardiovascular morbidity. To explore the underlying physiological mechanism we studied 350 mT static magnetic field (SMF) effect on arterial baroreflex-mediated skin microcirculatory response in conjunction with actual geomagnetic activity, reflected by K...

The AuroraWatch UK aurora alert service uses a network of magnetometers from across the United Kingdom to measure the disturbance in the Earth’s magnetic field caused by the aurora borealis (northern lights). The service has been measuring disturbances in the Earth’s magnetic field from the UK and issuing auroral visibility alerts to its subscribers, since September 2000. These alerts have four...

[1] Global images of the plasmasphere obtained by the Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) imager on the IMAGE satellite are used to study the evolving structure of the plasmasphere during two geomagnetic disturbances. By tracking the location of the plasmapause as a function of L shell and magnetic local time, quantitative measurements of radial and azimuthal motions of the boundary are made for interval...

Very recently (Banerjee et al. in Astrophys. Space, doi:1007/s 10509-011-0836-1, 2011) the statistics of geomagnetic Disturbance storm (Dst) index have been addressed, and the conclusion from this analysis suggests that the underlying dynamical process can be modeled as a fractional Brownian motion with persistent long-range correlations. In this comment we expose several misconceptions and fla...

[1] The ionosphere’s total electron content (TEC) is a parameter widely used in studies of the near-Earth plasma environment. The scientific use of TEC appeared early in the artificial satellite era, and among its many contributions were fundamental insights into how the ionosphere responds to geomagnetic storms. While many excellent reviews of solar-terrestrial disturbances exist in the litera...