2 papers
physics.space-ph2026
Electron Temperature Gradients Regulate the Duration of Two-Stage Plasmasphere Refilling
Jaden Fitzpatrick, Kausik Chatterjee, Naomi Maruyama +5
After geomagnetic storms erode the plasmasphere, cold ionospheric plasma flows along magnetic field lines to refill the depleted flux tubes. Previous studies have suggested that re…
physics.space-ph2026
An Enhanced "Flux-Corrected Transport"-Based Plasmasphere Refilling Model
Jaden Fitzpatrick, Kausik Chatterjee, Naomi Maruyama
A previously developed multi-ion, two-stream Flux-Corrected Transport (FCT) hydrodynamic model for plasmasphere refilling has been extended to incorporate self-consistent electron…