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Robert McPherron, Professor of Space Physics and Geophysics |
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| Mailing Address: | Department of Earth and Space Sciences
University of California, Los Angeles
595 Charles Young Drive East,
Box 951567
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567 |
| Office: | Geology 6711 |
| Telephone: | (310) 825-1882 |
| Fax: | (310) 206-8042 |
| E-mail: | rmcpherron@igpp.ucla.edu |
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Current Research Interest |
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| | Interests include: Physical processes producing aurora and geomagnetic activity within the earth’s magnetosphere including solar wind-magnetosphere coupling, magnetic storms, magnetospheric substorms and magnetic micropulsations (ULF waves); Relation of substorms to magnetic storms; Role of substorms in storm development; Empirical methods of space weather forecasting as applied to magnetic activity and relativistic electron fluxes. Current projects include real time calculation of magnetic indices, statistical properties of substorms in the magnetotail, parameterization of the ring current response to solar wind, precision timing of substorm onset, prediction or relativistic electron fluxes at synchronous orbit. |
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Education |
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| | B.S. in Physics, 1959, University of Washington
M.A. in Physics, 1961, University of Southern California
Ph.D. in Physics, 1968, University of Califrnia, Berkeley |
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Courses Taught |
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| Mineral Methods of Geophysical Exploration | ESS 136B |
| Introduction to Space Physics | ESS 200C | | Advanced
Topics in Magnetospheric Physics | ESS 261 | | Instrumentation
in Space Physics | ESS 265 | | Seminar in Space Physics | ESS
288 | |
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Selected Publications |
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| | McPherron, R.L., G.K. Parks, F.V. Coroniti, and S.H. Ward, Studies
of the magnetospheric substorm, II. Correlated magnetic micropulsations and electron
precipitation occurring during auroral substorms, J. Geophys. Res., 73(5),
1697-1713, 1968. | | | McPherron, R.L., Growth phase of
magnetospheric substorms, J. Geophys. Res., 75(28), 5592-5599, 1970. |
| | McPherron, R.L., Substorm related changes in the geomagnetic
tail, Planet Space Sci., 20(9), 1521-1539, 1972 |
| | McPherron, R.L., C.T. Russell, and M. Aubry, Satellite studies of
magnetospheric substorms on August 15, 1968, 9. Phenomenological model for substorms,
J. Geophys. Res., 78(16), 3131-3149, 1973. | | | McPherron,
R.L., The use of ground magnetograms to time the onset of magnetospheric substorms,
J. Geomagn. Geoelectr., 30, 149-163, 1978. | | | McPherron,
R.L., Magnetospheric Substorms, Rev. Geophys. Space Phys., 17(4), 657-681,
1979. | | | McPherron, R.L., Substorm associated micropulsations
at synchronous orbit, J. Geomagn. Geoelectr., 32(Supplement II),
SII 57-73, 1980. | | | McPherron, R.L., and R.H. Manka, Dynamics
of the 1054 UT, March 22, 1979 substorm event: CDAW-6, J. Geophys. Res.,
90(A2), 1175-1190, 1985. | | | McPherron, R.L., T.
Terasawa, and A. Nishida, Solar wind triggering of substorm expansion onset, J.
Geomagn. Geoelectr., 38(11), 1089-1108, 1986. | | | McPherron,
R.L., The EARTH: Its properties, composition and structure, in Encyclopedia
Britannica, pp. 545-558, 1987. | | | McPherron, R.L.,
Magnetospheric Dynamics, in Introduction to Space Physics, edited by M.G.
Kivelson, and C.T. Russell, pp. 400-458, Cambridge University Press, 1995. | | | McPherron,
R.L., Role of substorms in the development of magnetic storms, in Magnetic
Storms, edited by B.T. Tsurutani, W.D. Gonzalez, Y. Kamide, and J.K. Arballo,
pp. 131-147, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, 1997. | | | McPherron,
R.L., Physical processes producing magnetospheric substorms and magnetic stroms,
Chapter 7, in Geomagnetism, 4, J. Jacobs (ed.), Academic Press Ltd., Landing. |
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Graduate Students |
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| | Tung-Shin Hsu
thsu@igpp.ucla.edu
http://www.igpp.ucla.edu/people/tshin.html
| | | Paul O'Brien
tpoiii@igpp.ucla.edu
http://www.igpp.ucla.edu/people/pbrien.html |
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