Evolution of fractality in space plasmas of interest to geomagnetic activity

Muñoz, Víctor; Domínguez, Macarena; Valdivia, Juan Alejandro; Good, Simon; Nigro, Giuseppina; Carbone, Vincenzo

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-25-207-2018

Articles | Volume 25, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-25-207-2018

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Nonlinear Waves and Chaos

https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-25-207-2018

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12 Mar 2018

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| 12 Mar 2018

Evolution of fractality in space plasmas of interest to geomagnetic activity

Víctor Muñoz, Macarena Domínguez, Juan Alejandro Valdivia, Simon Good, Giuseppina Nigro, and Vincenzo Carbone

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Referee Comment', Anonymous Referee #1, 01 Sep 2017
- AC1: 'Response to first referee', Victor Munoz, 28 Nov 2017
RC2: 'Referee Report', Anonymous Referee #2, 02 Sep 2017
- AC2: 'Response to second referee', Victor Munoz, 28 Nov 2017
RC3: 'Interactive comment on the paper by Victor Munoz et al. (2017) Evolution of fractality in magnetized plasmas submitted to a special issue of NPG on Nonlinear Waves and Chaos 2017', Anonymous Referee #3, 04 Sep 2017
- AC3: 'Response to third referee', Victor Munoz, 28 Nov 2017

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Victor Munoz on behalf of the Authors (29 Nov 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (03 Dec 2017) by Gurbax S. Lakhina

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (12 Dec 2017)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (21 Dec 2017) by Gurbax S. Lakhina

AR by Victor Munoz on behalf of the Authors (31 Dec 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (03 Jan 2018) by Gurbax S. Lakhina

AR by Victor Munoz on behalf of the Authors (11 Jan 2018)

Short summary

Fractals are self-similar objects (which look the same at all scales), whose dimensions can be noninteger. They are mathematical concepts, useful to describe various physical systems, as the fractal dimension is a measure of their complexity. In this paper we study how these concepts can be applied to some problems in space plasmas, such as the activity of the Earth's magnetosphere, simulations of plasma turbulence, or identification of magnetic structures ejected from the Sun.