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Created: 2008-10-02 11:26:00

Updated: 2010-09-13 11:21:00

Responsible Thematic Node: Technical

Short Name: THEMIS

Brief description: Time History of Events and Macroscale Interaction During Substorms

URL: http://themis.ssl.berkeley.edu/index.shtml

Type: DATA/Observational

English Language: YES

Start date: 2007-02-17

Stop date: 2009-09-30

Restricted access: NO

Comment on the access:
Open

Longer description:
THEMIS answers longstanding fundamental questions concerning the nature of the substorm instabilities that abruptly and explosively release solar wind energy stored within the Earth’s magnetotail. The primary objectives of the mission are to

1. Establish when and where substorms begin
2. Determine how the individual components of the substorm interact
3. Determine how substorms power the aurora, and
4. Identify how local current disruption mechanisms couple to the more global substorm phenomena

Processing level:
calibrated

Status (static or active ?):
active

Howto URL 1: http://themis.ssl.berkeley.edu/roadrules.shtml

Associated bibliographic resource 1: Glassmeier, K. H. et.al., Magnetospheric quasi-static response to the dynamic magnetosheath: A THEMIS case study, Geophys. Res. Lett. 35, L17S01

EPN location (lab or institute): TUB

Contributor: Schmidt

Last updater: Schmidt

Responsible: Glaßmeier

Other Contact (name): Vassilis Angelopoulos

Other Contact (email): vassilis@ssl.berkeley.edu

This is a copy (not an original): NO

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