Role of stochastic fluctuations in the magnetosphere‐ionosphere system: A stochastic model for the<i>AE</i>index variations
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Abstract
A new stochastic model for theAEindex variations is developed to investigate the role of stochastic fluctuations in the magnetosphere‐ionosphere system. In contrast to pioneering stochastic models by Hnat et al. (2003, 2005), here the model is set up for the actual integrated quantity, i.e.,AEindex itself, instead of differenced variables, i.e.,AE(t+ Δt) −AE(t) and because of the different approach used in the derivation of the model, we do not restrict our model parameters to the power law behavior only. Also, we integrate the model to obtain a time series to which the observedAEis then compared to. The model suggests that the fluctuations are of internal magnetospheric origin, though the bursts can be triggered by an external perturbation, and are an interplay of deterministic and stochastic components of a stationary out‐of‐equilibrium system. The fundamental result of the study is that stochastic fluctuations play a central role in the evolution of theAEindex and cannot be grossly neglected. Also, in the model, the basic mechanism for all burst sizes is the same and thus no specific “substorm”‐related bursts can be extracted from theAEindex fluctuations. This suggests that from the global perspective, a specific well‐defined “class of substorms” may not exist. On the basis of their assumed spatiotemporal locality, impulsive dissipation events (IDE) (Sergeev et al., 1996) were proposed to be the fundamental physical building block of theAEindex fluctuations. The average temporal size of IDEs may explain the 3 mHz break in the power spectra of the time derivative of theAEindex reported here.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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