Article
Open Access
Fractal properties of the IMF and the Earth’s magnetotail field
- K. Kabin1Email author and
- V. O. Papitashvili1
Earth, Planets and Space201450:BF03352089
https://doi.org/10.1186/BF03352089
© The Society of Geomagnetism and Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences (SGEPSS); The Seismological Society of Japan; The Volcanological Society of Japan; The Geodetic Society of Japan; The Japanese Society for Planetary Sciences. 1998
Received: 19 December 1996
Accepted: 29 September 1997
Published: 6 June 2014
Abstract
The time series of the interplanetary and Earth’s magnetotail magnetic fields are analyzed. The data subsets taken by the IMP 8 spacecraft outside and inside of the Earth’s magnetosphere show clearly the fractal properties: their “box dimensions” are found to be close to 1.7 and 1.5 respectively. It is shown that data gaps have a little effect on the results. The magnetic field increment distributions are found to be non-Gaussian, but self-affine.
