Dubinin, E.; Sauer, K.; McKenzie, J. F.: Differential ion streaming in the solar wind as an equilibrium state. Journal Geophysical Research 110, A07101, p. 12 (2005)
McKenzie, J. F.; Dubinin, E. M.; Sauer, K.: Relativistic whistler oscillitons - do they exist? Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics 12 (3), pp. 425 - 431 (2005)
McKenzie, J. F.; Hagfors, T.: Parametric resonances revisited: comparison with kinetic description. Journal of Plasma Physics 71 (5), pp. 579 - 587 (2005)
Webb, G. M.; McKenzie, J. F.; Dubinin, E. M.; Sauer, K.: Hamiltonian formulation of nonlinear travelling Whistler waves. Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics 12 (5), pp. 643 - 660 (2005)
Dubinin, E.; Sauer, K.; McKenzie, J. F.: Nonlinear stationary waves and solitons in ion beam-plasma configuration. Journal Geophysical Research 109 (A2), A02208 (2004)
McKenzie, J. F.: Nonlinear stationary waves of the ion-cyclotron-acoustic type: solitons and spiky waveforms. Journal of Plasma Physics 70, pp. 533 - 541 (2004)
McKenzie, J. F.; Doyle, T. B.: Trans-sonic cusped shaped, periodic waves and solitary waves of the electrostatic ion-cyclotron type. Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics 11 (4), pp. 421 - 425 (2004)
McKenzie, J. F.; Dubinin, E.; Sauer, K.; Doyle, T. B.: The application of the constants of motion to nonlinear stationary waves in complex plasmas: a unified fluid dynamic viewpoint. Journal of Plasma Physics 70 (4), pp. 431 - 462 (2004)
McKenzie, J. F.; Verheest, F.; Doyle, T. B.; Hellberg, M. A.: Compressive and rarefactive ion-acoustic solitons in bi-ion plasmas. Physics of Plasmas 11 (5), pp. 1762 - 1769 (2004)
Verheest, F.; Cattaert, T.; Dubinin, E.; Sauer, K.; McKenzie, J. F.: Whistler oscillitons revisited: the role of charge neutrality? Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics 11 (4), pp. 447 - 452 (2004)
Ratkiewicz, R.; McKenzie, J. F.: Interstellar magnetic field effects on the temination shock, heliopause, and bow shock: Aligned MHD flow. Journal Geophysical Research 108 (A2), p. 1071 (2003)
Sauer, K.; Dubinin, E.; McKenzie, J. F.: Solitons and oscillitons in multi-ion space plasmas. Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics 10, pp. 121 - 130 (2003)
Dubinin, E.; Sauer, K.; McKenzie, J. F.: Solitons and oscillitons in cold bi-ion plasmas: a parameter study. Journal of Plasma Physics 68, pp. 27 - 52 (2002)
Dubinin, E.; Sauer, K.; McKenzie, J. F.; Chanteur, G.: Nonlinear waves and solitons propagating perpendicular to the magnetic field in bi-ion plasma with finite plasma pressure. Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics 9, pp. 87 - 99 (2002)
Analyzing the high spatial resolution solar Ca II H and K emission data obtained by the SUNRISE mission and building a model of other stars more active than the Sun
The Planetary Plasma Environments group (PPE) has a strong heritage in the exploration of planetary magnetospheres and space plasma interactions throughout the solar system. It has contributed instruments to several past missions that flew-by or orbited Jupiter (Galileo, Cassini, Ulysses). The PPE participates in the JUICE mission by contributing hardware and scientific expertise to the Particle Environment Package (PEP).
The magnetic field in the solar atmosphere exceeds the geomagnetic field strength by four orders of magnitude. It greatly influences the processes of energy transport within the solar atmosphere, and dominates the morphology of the solar chromosphere and corona. Kinetic energy from convective motions in the Sun can be efficiently stored in magnetic fields and subsequently released - to heat the solar corona to several million degrees or to blast off coronal mass ejections.