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CURRICULUM VITAE: CV (.pdf file, 88K) as of Nov. 2005

Impact on Power Systems AT&T Satellite 'Malfunction'

CNN report: Solar Radiation might have killed satellite

ISTP fleet tracks a geomagnetic storm from craddle to grave

POLAR UV camera observations of Magnetic Storm (oblivious to sunlight, responds to aurorae both at nightside and dayside):(1.2 MB Gif Movie); (8.6 MB Gif Movie). Courtecy of G. Parks and the POLAR-UV team.

Exploration of the Earth's magnetosphere

Other space physics education/outreach pages

First in-situ measurement of scale-size of transport-efficient magnetospheric flows

Magnetospheric Constellation

Geospace Multiprobes: A Feasibility Argument

Constellation Class Missions (<---Selected articles)

Front Cover (pdf, 10K): Preface (pdf, 10K): Back Cover (pdf, 10K):

JGR Geotail-Polar Poynting Flux (pdf, 1,342K): POLAR_Geotail_Poynting_Flux.pdf

JGR 2001 on POLAR Storm (pdf, 743K): POLAR_Storm_JGR.pdf

Phys. of Plasmas 99 (pdf, 400K): PHP99.pdf

POLAR cusp crossings (JGR special issue on POLAR) (pdf, 2.1M): POLARCUSPJGR00.pdf

Michael Somoza Home Page

View plots pertaining to collaborative studies which I am currently conducting or which are under peer review.

TH in tail, CL in SW, PO in South, GT in SW, on Mar-23, 2007
CL-PO in tail, GT in SW or tail, in Aug-Sep 2003
GT in tail - Cluster at perigee on Jan.. 18, 2001 (in 2001)
GT in tail - Cluster at perigee on Feb. 14, 2001 (in 2001)
1998-Feb-17 STORM STUDIES
Polar Cusp Turbulence Studies
Yahnin Dec. 15, 1996 injection
GEOTAIL-Sonderestromfjord conjunctions
POLAR-GEOTAIL Conjunction on 96/11/13
International Space Science Institute
Current Sheet Properties Within a Flapping Plasma Sheet
International Space Science Institute Report
The "Petrukovich event": a Poker Flat - Geotail - Interball conjunction.
Spontaneous Substorm Onset on Jan. 22, 1993 at 04:15 UT
Aikio et al., Jan. 18, 1993 substorms
POLAR-GEOTAIL-WIND 960327 conjunction substorms
WIGT_951018(GangLuEvent)
POLAR_960318(TIMASconjunction:Peterson)
POLAR_960515(CEPPADconjunctionA:Spence)
POLAR_960606(CEPPADconjunctionB:Spence)
Polar Cap Potential Fluctuations