FRACTAL PROPERTIES OF THE IMF AND THE EARTHS MAGNETOTAIL FIELD

Authors
KABIN K PAPITASHVILI VO
Citation
K. Kabin et Vo. Papitashvili, FRACTAL PROPERTIES OF THE IMF AND THE EARTHS MAGNETOTAIL FIELD, EARTH PLANETS AND SPACE, 50(1), 1998, pp. 87-90
Citations number
17
Categorie Soggetti
Geosciences, Interdisciplinary
Journal title
EARTH PLANETS AND SPACE → ACNP
ISSN journal
13438832
Volume
50
Issue
1
Year of publication
1998
Pages
87 - 90
Database
ISI
SICI code
1343-8832(1998)50:1<87:FPOTIA>2.0.ZU;2-#
Abstract
The time series of the interplanetary and Earth's magnetotail magnetic fields are analyzed. The data subsets taken by the IMP 8 spacecraft o utside and inside of the Earth's magnetosphere show clearly the fracta l properties: their ''box dimensions'' are found to be close to 1.7 an d 1.5 respectively. It is shown that data gaps have a little effect on the results. The magnetic field increment distributions are found to be non-Gaussian, but self-affine.