UNSPECIFIED (1999) Robustness of collective behaviour in strongly driven avalanche models: magnetospheric implications. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, 26 (16). pp. 2617-2620. ISSN 0094-8276.

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Abstract

The hypothesis of self-organised criticality (SOC) predicts that certain open dissipative systems evolve to a critical state where all energy release statistics display power law distributions for event occurrence, size and duration. This has motivated "sandpile" simulations of magnetospheric energy confinement and release events ("avalanches") I previous examples of which have taken the limit where energy inflow ("fuelling") is slow relative to dissipation, and either uniform or random. However the magnetospheric system has both slow and fast periods mixed together in observations, and naturally modulated fuelling. We have developed an avalanche model with variable, modulated fuelling rate. The power law form for the distribution of energy release events is the least ambiguous current indicator of SOC; we show that this is preserved for the large avalanches in such a system under both constant and varying loading and so such systems are remarkably efficient at eliminating small scale information about their fuelling.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	Q Science > QE Geology
Journal or Publication Title:	GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
Publisher:	AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
ISSN:	0094-8276
Official Date:	15 August 1999
Dates:	Date Event 15 August 1999 UNSPECIFIED
Volume:	26
Number:	16
Number of Pages:	4
Page Range:	pp. 2617-2620
Publication Status:	Published

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