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Kan Liou
Researcher at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Publications - 179
Citations - 6778
Kan Liou is an academic researcher from Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. The author has contributed to research in topics: Substorm & Solar wind. The author has an hindex of 43, co-authored 173 publications receiving 6068 citations. Previous affiliations of Kan Liou include Johns Hopkins University & University of New Hampshire.
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A nearly universal solar wind-magnetosphere coupling function inferred from 10 magnetospheric state variables
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated whether one or a few coupling functions can represent best the interaction between the solar wind and the magnetosphere over a wide variety of magnetospheric activity.
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Earthward flow bursts, auroral streamers, and small expansions
Rumi Nakamura,Wolfgang Baumjohann,Rainer Schödel,Mitchell J. Brittnacher,V. A. Sergeev,Marina Kubyshkina,Toshifumi Mukai,Kan Liou +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used Geotail plasma and magnetic field data and Polar ultraviolet imager data to study Earthward flow bursts associated with small auroral expansions, including pseudobreakups, and auroral streamers.
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Estimation of global field aligned currents using the iridium® System magnetometer data
TL;DR: In this article, a spherical harmonic fitting (SHF) technique for estimating field aligned currents (FACs) using the cross track component of the magnetic field measurements from the Iridium satellites is presented.
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Multiple-spacecraft observation of a narrow transient plasma jet in the Earth's plasma sheet
V. A. Sergeev,J. A. Sauvaud,D. Popescu,R. A. Kovrazhkin,Kan Liou,Patrick T. Newell,Mitchell J. Brittnacher,George K. Parks,Rumi Nakamura,Toshifumi Mukai,Geoffrey D. Reeves +10 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used observations from five magnetospheric spacecraft in a fortuitous constellation to show that narrow transient plasma flow jets of considerable length formed in the tail can intrude into the inner magnetosphere and provide considerable contribution to the total plasma transport.
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Comprehensive study of the magnetospheric response to a hot flow anomaly
David G. Sibeck,N. L. Borodkova,Steven J. Schwartz,Christopher J. Owen,Ramona Kessel,Susumu Kokubun,R. P. Lepping,Robert P. Lin,Kan Liou,H. Lühr,R. W. McEntire,C.-I. Meng,Toshifumi Mukai,Zdenek Nemecek,George K. Parks,Tai Phan,S. Romanov,Jana Safrankova,J. A. Sauvaud,Howard J. Singer,S. I. Solovyev,Adam Szabo,Kazue Takahashi,D. J. Williams,Kiyohumi Yumoto,G. N. Zastenker +25 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a comprehensive observational study of the magnetospheric response to an interplanetary magnetic field tangential discontinuity, which first struck the postnoon bow shock and magnetopause and then swept past the prenoon bow-shocks and magnetopsause on July 24, 1996.