ROMA (Rank-Ordered Multifractal Analyses) of intermittency in space plasmas - A brief tutorial review
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Discipline
Physical sciences
Subject
aurora
computer simulation
fractal analysis
magnetic field
magnetosphere
numerical method
plasma
stochasticity
Audience
Scientific
Date
2010Metadata
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Intermittent fluctuations are the consequence of the dynamic interactions of multiple coherent or pseudo-coherent structures of varied sizes in the stochastic media (Chang, 1999). We briefly review here a recently developed technique, the Rank-Ordered Multifractal Analysis (ROMA), which is both physically explicable and quantitatively accurate in deciphering the multifractal characteristics of such intermittent structures (Chang and Wu, 2008). The utility of the method is demonstrated using results obtained from large-scale 2-D MHD simulations as well as in-situ observations of magnetic field fluctuations from the interplanetary and magnetospheric cusp regions, and the broadband electric field oscillations from the auroral zone.
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Chang, T.; Wu, C.C.; Podesta, J.; Echim, M.; Lamy, H.; Tam, S.W.Y. (2010). ROMA (Rank-Ordered Multifractal Analyses) of intermittency in space plasmas - A brief tutorial review. , Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, Vol. 17, Issue 5, 545-551, DOI: 10.5194/npg-17-545-2010.Identifiers
scopus: 2-s2.0-77957981992
Type
Article
Peer-Review
Yes
Language
eng