Bengt U. Ö. Sonnerup

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PhD Physics University of California, Berkeley
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First multispacecraft ion measurements in and near the Earth's magnetosphere with the identical Cluster ion spectrometry (CIS) experiment (2001) (1181)
Magnetopause structure and attitude from Explorer 12 observations. (1967) (1030)
Evidence for magnetic field reconnection at the Earth's magnetopause (1981) (713)
Plasma acceleration at the Earth's magnetopause: evidence for reconnection (1979) (594)
Minimum and Maximum Variance Analysis (1998) (586)
The magnetopause for large magnetic shear: AMPTE/IRM observations (1986) (420)
Magnetopause reconnection rate (1974) (401)
Structure of the low‐latitude boundary layer (1980) (379)
Magnetic field reconnection (1979) (327)
Theory of the low-latitude boundary layer (1980) (321)
Adiabatic particle orbits in a magnetic null sheet (1971) (283)
Magnetic-field re-connexion in a highly conducting incompressible fluid (1970) (278)
Reconstruction of magnetic clouds in the solar wind: Orientations and configurations (2002) (265)
Hill model of transpolar potential saturation: Comparisons with MHD simulations (2002) (255)
Acceleration of particles reflected at a shock front (1969) (236)
Electron magnetic reconnection without ion coupling in Earth’s turbulent magnetosheath (2018) (226)
Extended magnetic reconnection at the Earth's magnetopause from detection of bi-directional jets (2000) (217)
Two‐dimensional coherent structures in the magnetopause: Recovery of static equilibria from single‐spacecraft data (1999) (213)
Magnetopause properties from AMPTE/IRM observations of the convection electric field: Method development (1987) (171)
Explorer 12 observations of the magnetopause current layer (1968) (163)
Low‐latitude dayside magnetopause and boundary layer for high magnetic shear: 2. Occurrence of magnetic reconnection (1996) (157)
Reconstruction of magnetic flux ropes in the solar wind (2001) (155)
Resistive MHD stagnation-point flows at a current sheet (1975) (134)
Kelvin-Helmholtz waves at the Earth's magnetopause: Multiscale development and associated reconnection (2009) (126)
DeHoffmann-Teller Analysis (1998) (120)
Transient and localized processes in the magnetotail: a review (2008) (120)
Modulation instability of circularly polarized Alfvén waves (1986) (116)
The structure of flux transfer events recovered from Cluster data (2006) (114)
The Magnetospheric Sash and the Cross‐Tail S (1998) (113)
Modulational instability of finite amplitude dispersive Alfvén waves (1983) (112)
Four-spacecraft determination of magnetopause orientation, motion and thickness: comparison with results from single-spacecraft methods (2004) (111)
The magnetopause for large magnetic shear: Analysis of convection electric fields from AMPTE/IRM (1990) (103)
Grad‐Shafranov reconstruction: An overview (2006) (103)
Anatomy of a flux transfer event seen by Cluster (2004) (100)
Nonsteady boundary layer flow including ionospheric drag and parallel electric fields (1987) (99)
Vortex laws and field line invariants in polytropic field-aligned MHD flow (1994) (98)
A high‐latitude, low‐latitude boundary layer model of the convection current system (1991) (96)
Optimal reconstruction of magnetopause structures from Cluster data (2005) (91)
Reconstruction of two-dimensional magnetopause structures from Cluster observations: verification of method (2004) (90)
Magnetopause and Boundary Layer (2005) (85)
On the stress balance in flux transfer events (1987) (83)
Double‐polytropic closure in the magnetosheath (1993) (82)
Error estimates for minimum variance analysis (1998) (82)
The magnetopause and boundary layer for small magnetic shear: Convection electric fields and reconnection (1990) (81)
Reconstruction of two-dimensional structures in the magnetopause: Method improvements (2003) (80)
Physics of the magnetopause (1995) (80)
Orientation and motion of current layers: minimization of the Faraday residue (1998) (77)
On slow-mode waves in an anisotropic plasma (1993) (76)
Global role of E|| in magnetopause reconnection : An explicit demonstration (2001) (75)
Magnetopause structure during the magnetic storm of September 24, 1961 (1971) (73)
On the structure of resistive MHD intermediate shocks (1989) (69)
Fluid and kinetics signatures of reconnection at the dawn tail magnetopause: Wind observations (2001) (67)
Resonant vibration of the magnetosphere observed from Explorer 26 (1969) (66)
MHD Simulation of Magnetospheric Transport at the Mesoscale (2013) (66)
The Reconnecting Magnetosphere (1974) (62)
Ogo 5 magnetopause structure and classical reconnection (1979) (60)
On magnetospheric interchange instability (1963) (60)
Magnetic field reconnection at the magnetopause: An overview (2013) (59)
On the theory of steady state reconnection (1988) (54)
Coordinated Cluster/Double star observations of dayside reconnection signatures (2005) (53)
Characteristics of the near-tail dawn magnetopause and boundary layer (2005) (51)
Walén and variance analyses of high‐speed flows observed by Wind in the midtail plasma sheet: Evidence for reconnection (2000) (51)
Orientation and motion of a plasma discontinuity from single‐spacecraft measurements: Generic residue analysis of Cluster data (2006) (49)
Magnetopause rotational forms (1974) (48)
Magnetic island formation between large‐scale flow vortices at an undulating postnoon magnetopause for northward interplanetary magnetic field (2009) (48)
Compressible magnetopause reconnection (1977) (47)
First-order orbit theory of the rotational discontinuity. (1968) (46)
Orientation and motion of a discontinuity from Cluster curlometer capability: Minimum variance of current density (2004) (46)
Orientation, motion, and other properties of flux transfer event structures on September 4, 1984 (1989) (45)
Global Geometry of Magnetospheric Currents Inferred From MHD Simulations (2013) (44)
Remote sensing of two‐dimensional magnetopause structures (1993) (43)
Large Amplitude Whistler Waves in a Hot Collision‐Free Plasma (1967) (40)
Orientation and motion of two‐dimensional structures in a space plasma (2005) (40)
Simulations of the magnetosphere for zero interplanetary magnetic field: The ground state (2001) (39)
Magnetopause transects from two spacecraft: A comparison (2000) (39)
Self-consistent gyroviscous fluid model of rotational discontinuities (1991) (37)
Compressible magnetic field reconnection: A slow wave model (1976) (37)
ISEE observations of the magnetopause: Reconnection and the energy balance (1985) (36)
Observation of anomalous slow‐mode shock and reconnection layer in the dayside magnetopause (1994) (36)
THEMIS observations of a secondary magnetic island within the Hall electromagnetic field region at the magnetopause (2010) (36)
Comment on "A new interpretation of Weimer et al.'s solar wind propagation delay technique" by Bargatze et al. (2006) (36)
MHD properties of magnetosheath flow (2002) (35)
The structure of resistive‐dispersive intermediate shocks (1990) (35)
Transport Mechanisms at the Magnetopause (1980) (33)
Reconstruction of two‐dimensional coherent MHD structures in a space plasma: The theory (2008) (32)
Orientation and motion of a discontinuity from single‐spacecraft measurements of plasma velocity and density: Minimum mass flux residue (2004) (32)
Self-consistent model of the low-latitude boundary layer (1989) (32)
Motion of the MMS spacecraft relative to the magnetic reconnection structure observed on 16 October 2015 at 1307 UT (2016) (32)
Discontinuities and Alfvénic fluctuations in the solar wind (2013) (31)
Fluid Aspects of Reconnection at the Magnetopause: In Situ Observations (2013) (30)
Double vision: Remote sensing of a flux transfer event with ISEE 1 and 2 (1994) (30)
Structure of Jupiter's magnetopause - Pioneer 10 and 11 observations (1981) (30)
Discontinuity Orientation, Motion, and Thickness (2008) (30)
MHD stagnation-point flows at a current sheet including viscous and resistive effects: general two-dimensional solutions (1990) (28)
First results from ideal 2-D MHD reconstruction: magnetopause reconnection event seen by Cluster (2008) (28)
Determining L‐M‐N Current Sheet Coordinates at the Magnetopause From Magnetospheric Multiscale Data (2018) (27)
Recovery of streamlines in the flank low‐latitude boundary layer (2006) (27)
Tearing modes at the magnetopause (1981) (27)
On the equilibrium of the magnetopause current layer (1971) (26)
On steady field‐aligned double‐adiabatic flow (1992) (26)
Observation of the magnetospheric “sash” and its implications relative to solar‐wind/magnetospheric coupling: A multisatellite event analysis (2001) (26)
Self‐consistent steady state model of the low‐latitude boundary layer (1994) (26)
Reverse draping of magnetic field lines in the boundary layer (1982) (25)
Dynamics of shear velocity layer with bent magnetic field lines (1994) (24)
Reconstruction of a large-scale reconnection exhaust structure in the solar wind (2009) (24)
Reconstruction of the electron diffusion region observed by the Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft: First results (2017) (24)
Responses of the open–closed field line boundary in the evening sector to IMF changes: A source mechanism for Sun‐aligned arcs (2003) (24)
Grad‐Shafranov reconstruction with field‐aligned flow: First results (2007) (24)
Response of ionospheric convection to changes in the interplanetary magnetic field: Lessons from a MHD simulation (2001) (23)
Relation between cusp and mantle in MHD simulation (2001) (22)
Test of methods to infer the magnetic reconnection geometry from spacecraft data (2010) (22)
Large‐Scale Survey of the Structure of the Dayside Magnetopause by MMS (2018) (22)
Electromagnetic structure of the magnetopause and boundary layer (1979) (21)
Theory of the low latitude boundary layer and its coupling to the ionosphere: A tutorial review (2013) (21)
Deflected magnetosheath flow at the high‐latitude magnetopause (2000) (21)
Flow‐through magnetic reconnection (2002) (21)
On the interchange instability (1986) (20)
Structure of reconnection boundary layers in incompressible MHD (1987) (20)
Local structure of directional discontinuities in the solar wind (2011) (20)
Reconstruction of the electron diffusion region (2016) (20)
Evidence of the origin of the Hall magnetic field for reconnection: Hall MHD reconstruction results from Cluster observations (2011) (20)
Theories of Magnetic Field Annihilation (1975) (19)
Predictions of magnetosheath merging between IMF field lines of opposite polarity (2002) (19)
Resistive tearing-mode instability in a magnetic-field-reversing current sheet with coplanar viscous stagnation-point flow (1996) (18)
Test of Shi et al. method to infer the magnetic reconnection geometry from spacecraft data: MHD simulation with guide field and antiparallel kinetic simulation (2012) (18)
Magnetic flux rope formation within a magnetosheath hot flow anomaly (2012) (18)
Reconstruction of two-dimensional coherent structures in ideal and resistive Hall MHD: The theory (2009) (17)
Electrostatic structure of the rotational discontinuity II: Shock pair solutions (1984) (14)
Magnetopause Processes (2005) (13)
Dual-spacecraft reconstruction of a three-dimensional magnetic flux rope at the Earth's magnetopause (2014) (13)
Evidence for an extended reconnection line at the dayside magnetopause (2001) (12)
Recovery of time evolution of Grad‐Shafranov equilibria from single‐spacecraft data: Benchmarking and application to a flux transfer event (2010) (12)
Magnetic field maxima in the low latitude boundary layer (1992) (12)
The thickness of resistive-dispersive shocks (1992) (11)
On slowly evolving Grad‐Shafranov equilibria (2010) (11)
On the stability of the closed magnetosphere (1965) (11)
Magnetic variance analysis for small-amplitude waves and flux transfer events on a current sheet (1998) (11)
Reconstruction of an evolving magnetic flux rope in the solar wind: Decomposing spatial and temporal variations from single‐spacecraft data (2014) (11)
On arc-polarized structures in the solar wind (2010) (10)
Reconnection layer bounded by switch‐off shocks: Dayside magnetopause crossing by THEMIS D (2016) (10)
Comment on “MHD Stagnation point flows in the presence of resistivity and viscosity” by F. T. Gratton, M. F. Heyn, H. K. Biernat, R. P. Rijnbeek, and G. Gnavi (1990) (10)
Magnetic field reconnection in cosmic plasmas (1985) (10)
MMS observations of oblique small‐scale magnetopause flux ropes near the ion diffusion region during weak guide‐field reconnection (2017) (10)
Experimental tests of FTE theories (1988) (10)
field-aligned potential drops and nonconstant mapping factors (1996) (10)
Resistive tearing-mode instability in a current sheet with equilibrium viscous stagnation-point flow (1991) (9)
Electrostatic structure of the rotational discontinuity: The elementary pulse (1984) (8)
Magnetic field reconnection and particle acceleration (1973) (8)
Self-similar resistive decay of a current sheet in a compressible plasma (1979) (8)
Coupling between the Solar Wind and the Earth’s Magnetosphere: Summary Comments (1986) (8)
Resistive MHD reconstruction of two-dimensional coherent structures in space (2010) (8)
Reconnection guide field and quadrupolar structure observed by MMS on 16 October 2015 at 1307 UT (2016) (8)
Reconstruction of steady, three-dimensional, magnetohydrostatic field and plasma structures in space: Theory and benchmarking (2011) (8)
Axis and velocity determination for quasi two‐dimensional plasma/field structures from Faraday's law: A second look (2013) (7)
Observation of a slow-mode shock in the dayside magnetopause reconnection layer (1995) (7)
Correction to “Orientation and motion of a plasma discontinuity from single‐spacecraft measurements: Generic residue analysis of Cluster data” (2007) (6)
Discontinuity analysis with cluster (2006) (6)
Nature of the rotational discontinuity. (1969) (5)
More about arc-polarized structures in the solar wind (2012) (4)
Contact discontinuities in a cold collision‐free two‐beam plasma (1982) (4)
Some Effects of Tensor Conductivity in Magnetohydrodynamics (1961) (4)
THEORY OF VISCOUS MAGNETOGASDYNAMIC FLOW IN SLOWLY DIVERGING TWO-DIMENSIONAL CHANNELS (1961) (3)
Structure of the low-latitude boundary layer. [in magnetopause] (1981) (3)
Nonlinear MHD waves on an interface of finite thickness with compressibility and resonant damping (1996) (3)
Comparison of Quality Measures for Walén Relation (2020) (3)
Prediction of Alfvénic turbulence near the magnetospheric sash (2002) (3)
The Low‐Latitude Boundary Layer on Closed Field Lines (2013) (3)
Solar Wind Interaction with Planetary Magnetic Fields (1985) (3)
ISEE observations of magnetopause reconnection: The energy balance (1983) (3)
Erratum: First‐Order Orbit Theory of the Rotational Discontinuity (1970) (2)
Orientation, motion, and other properties of FTE structures on September 4, 1984 (1988) (2)
Magnetopause reconnection rate. [relating to electric and magnetic field configurations] (1974) (2)
Tearing modes at the magnetopause. [of earth and Jupiter] (1981) (2)
Motion of Charged Particles in Growing or Decaying Circularly Polarized Waves (1968) (2)
Publisher Correction: Electron magnetic reconnection without ion coupling in Earth’s turbulent magnetosheath (2019) (2)
Grad‐Shafranov Reconstruction Technique and Its Applications (2004) (2)
Modes of mesoscale magnetospheric dynamics - Dependence on IMF orientation (2000) (1)
Steady Magnetic Field Reconnection (2013) (1)
Reflections by Bengt Ulf Östen Sonnerup (2022) (1)
Magnetopause reconnection layer bounded by switch‐off shocks: Part 2. Pressure anisotropy (2016) (1)
Remote Sensing of 2D Magnetopause Structures (2013) (1)
On the occurrence of topological changes of the magnetosphere (1966) (1)
Comparative Cluster/Double Star observations of the high and low latitude dayside magnetopause (2005) (1)
Anomalous Reconnection Layer at Earth's Dayside Magnetopause (2021) (1)
— 1 — Discontinuity Orientation , Motion , and Thickness (2008) (1)
Orientation and Structure of Reconnection Layer from Simulated Spacecraft Data (2008) (0)
Magnetopause and boundary layer. [review (1976) (0)
The reconnecting magnetosphere. [open dynamo model] (1974) (0)
Magnetopause Thickness, Motion And Velocity From Multi-spacecraft Observations (2002) (0)
Magnetopause studies using data from the ISEE mission (1983) (0)
The Magnetopause Boundary Layer (1990) (0)
Magnetopause boundary layer. Final report, 19 February 1987-18 May 1990 (1990) (0)
Expression as a Legendre Function, of an Elliptic Integral Occuring in Wing Theory (1959) (0)
Flow-Through Reconnection 1: The Northward Case (2001) (0)
Reconstruction of two-dimensional magnetopause structures using multi-spacecraft information from Cluster (2004) (0)
Magnetopause structure from satellite observations (1979) (0)
[Comment on “Implementing the peer review process in AGU Publications” The peer review process in JGR”Space Physics (1984) (0)
Sources of Cold Dense Plasma Sheet:A Multi-Satellite, Multipoint Case Study (2005) (0)
Cluster Observations of the Dawn-Side Magnetosphere and Boundary Layer (2001) (0)
Publisher Correction: Electron magnetic reconnection without ion coupling in Earth’s turbulent magnetosheath (2019) (0)
Reconstruction of the electron diffusion region observed by MMS: First results (2016) (0)
Evidence for Depletion Layers at the Dayside Magnetopause for IMF Orientations with Southward Components (2002) (0)
Dynamic processes at the outer boundary of the magnetosphere, including coupling to the ionosphere. Final report, 15 January 1990-31 March 1994 (1994) (0)
What did we learn from Cluster observations at the magnetopause (2015) (0)
Discontinuity Analysis Inconsistency: Potential and Limitations of the Multi-Spacecraft Timing Approach to Boundary Parameter Estimation (2010) (0)
Theory of the low attitude boundary layer (1979) (0)
Coordinated Measurements of the Bow Shock, Magnetopause, Polar Cusp, and Magnetotail by Multiple Spacecraft (2006) (0)
Magnetopause structure and dynamics of the magnetosphere. [Explorer 12 observations] (1973) (0)
MAGNETOSPHERIC INTERCHANGE INSTABILITY FOR AN IDEAL PLASMA (1962) (0)
Evolution equation for infinitesimal rotational discontinuities (1990) (0)
THEMIS FTE Encounter Between Oppositely Directed Reconnection Jets at the Dayside Subsolar Region on 27 June 2007 (2010) (0)
On the Orientation of Magnetic Flux Ropes (2001) (0)
Investigation of turbulent processes in magnetospheric boundary layers. Final Technical Report, 1 Sep. 1987 - 28 Feb. 1990 (1990) (0)
Motion of the MMS spacecraft through magnetic reconnection structures (2016) (0)
Structure of the magnetopause current layer (1966) (0)
Electron magnetic reconnection without ion coupling in Earth’s turbulent magnetosheath (2018) (0)
Detection of bi-directional plasma jets and extended magnetic reconnection line at Earth ’ s magnetopause (0)
Experimental tests of FTE theories. [Flux Transfer Event] (1988) (0)
Ultra-Low-Frequency Magnetospheric Physics : Scale-Interactive Processes Involving Global Dynamics , Boundary and Internal Resonance Layers , Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling , and Particle Energization (0)
Vincenzo C.A. Ferraro (1907–1974) (2013) (0)
Reconstruction of two-dimensional magnetopause structures from Cluster observations: Orientation of two-dimensionality (2003) (0)
Two-dimensional MHD reconstruction for studying magnetic reconnection at the magnetopause (2007) (0)
The Magnetospheric Fluopause (2001) (0)
Tail Current Contribution to Dst during Major Storms (2001) (0)
We examine local structures of three directional discontinuities ( DDs ) observed by Cluster in the solar wind , using reconstruction based on the ideal 2 ‐ D MHD equations in a steady state (2011) (0)
A Multi-satellie, multipoint case study of the cold dense plasma sheet (2006) (0)
Measuring the magnetic structure velocity for the 11 July 2017 magnetotail reconnection event (2019) (0)
Cluster Observations of Reconnection Signatures At The Magnetopause and In The Cusp (2002) (0)

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