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Turbulent processes in the Earth's magnetotail: spectral and statistical research
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine
Space Research Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and State Space Agency of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
Bohdan A. Petrenko
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine
Anthony T. Y. Lui
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, USA
Elena A. Kronberg
Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany
Elena E. Grigorenko
Space Research Institute, RAS, Russia
Andrew S. Prokhorenkov
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine
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Short summary
We analysed the turbulent processes in the Earth's magnetotail in the regions of magnetic field dipolarization and compared them with known models. We used spectral and statistical methods for analysis measurements from the Cluster-II mission. We have obtained a significant difference for turbulent processes depending on observed scales. Our results can be interesting for classification of the turbulent processes in both hydrodynamics and magnetohydrodynamics environments.
We analysed the turbulent processes in the Earth's magnetotail in the regions of magnetic field...
