Hi John, yes well I always hope for a cry of "Rubbish!.... it's all like
this" ! ....but it never seems to happen. I did get the original Dst idea in
that way though my adviser was much more polite and very helpful.
I do have some drawing showing a number of rings out between 3 and 9
earth-radii ...electrons go one way and ions the other. The electrons seem
to spiral around the geomagnetic lines of force, whilst the ions are shown
following a more "traditional" orbit. The professional review papers give
this but as soon as they start to go into detail it all gets a bit
difficult, or maybe they dont actually know and maybe are not interested in
the detail. You will remember the controversy about clearing out the "safe
satellite belt" last year.
There are some ideas to look at in the area of recovery time and peak Kp
index. A quick check on the Colorado graphs shows a couple of events with
radically different slopes to the Dst plots after a storm. I have one paper
suggesting the fit is logarithmic (as one might expect, a bit like a
capacitor discharge curve), but it doesnt really go very far, like
explaining why.
Still it gives me something boring to waffle about and send you all off to
sleep !!
Sweet Dreams
Cheers de Alan G3NYK
----- Original Message -----
From: John Andrews <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: 10 January 2007 19:10
Subject: Re: LF: Re: T/A last night :onlly a few traces XES
> Alan,
>
> Hartmut's copy is along the same lines...weak copy of Jay early, and
> then very little after that. I note that there was an area of
> thunderstorm activity in the central Mediterranean area, but that's
> quite a distance away.
>
> I like your multiple ring theory.
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