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Spring 2017
Fluxgate magnetometers are an essential tool for solar-terrestrial research and monitoring or forecasting space weather. They provide high precision measurements of the Earth’s magnetic fields and can be used to infer the currents that transport energy and momentum through the magnetosphere and...
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Spring 2019
The ionospheric Alfvén resonator (IAR) is an area of space that, due to sharp Alfvén speed gradients, has the ability to trap electromagnetic plasma wave energy, where it bounces in the Alfvén mode between near-Earth space and the lower ionosphere. Here we present research that, by comparing...
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Spring 2014
This thesis concerns the development and evolution of the magnetospheric substorm. In particular this thesis concentrates on the dynamics of Ultra Low Frequency (ULF) waves during the substorm growth and expansion phases, the coupling of the ionosphere and magnetosphere through substorm onset and...
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Monitoring and Assessment of Geomagnetically Induced Currents in Alberta’s High Voltage Network
DownloadFall 2022
Geoelectric fields produced by time-varying magnetic fields associated with geomagnetic storms can result in potentially damaging geomagnetically induced currents (GICs) in long conductors at Earth’s surface. GICs are quasi-direct currents which have been demonstrated to pose a significant risk...
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Spring 2013
Space-based measurements of the Earth's magnetic field are required to understand the plasma processes of the solar-terrestrial connection which energize the Van Allen radiation belts and cause space weather. This thesis describes a fluxgate magnetometer payload developed for the proposed...