CIR morphology, turbulence, discontinuities, and energetic particles - Report of Working Group 2

Authors
Crooker, NU Gosling, JT Bothmer, V Forsyth, RJ Gazis, PR Hewish, A Horbury, TS Intriligator, DS Jokipii, JR Kota, J Lazarus, AJ Lee, MA Lucek, E Marsch, E Posner, A Richardson, IG Roelof, EC Schmidt, JM Siscoe, GL Tsurutani, BT Wimmer-Schweingruber, RF
Citation
Nu. Crooker et al., CIR morphology, turbulence, discontinuities, and energetic particles - Report of Working Group 2, SPACE SCI R, 89(1-2), 1999, pp. 179-220
Citations number
72
Categorie Soggetti
Space Sciences
Journal title
SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS
ISSN journal
00386308 → ACNP
Volume
89
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1999
Pages
179 - 220
Database
ISI
SICI code
0038-6308(1999)89:1-2<179:CMTDAE>2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
Corotating interaction regions (CIRs) in the middle heliosphere have distin ct morphological features and associated patterns of turbulence and energet ic particles. This report summarizes current understanding of those feature s and patterns, discusses how they can vary from case to case and with dist ance from the Sun and possible causes of those variations, presents an anal ytical model of the morphological features found in earlier qualitative mod els and numerical simulations, and identifies aspects of the features and p atterns that have yet to be resolved.