Athanasios Boudouridis

Assistant Researcher working with Professor Larry Lyons

Education

B.A., 1991, Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.

M.A., 1993, Astronomy, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom.

Ph.D., 2001, Astronomy, Boston University, Boston, United States.

Dissertation title: Spatial and Temporal Aspects of High-Latitude Particle Precipitation: a Remote Diagnostic of Magnetospheric Regions and Processes.

Research interests

Global electrodynamic response to solar wind dynamic pressure enhancements.

Mid-latitude Pc3-5 waves and Field Line Resonances (FLRs), and their application to plasmaspheric density determinations.

Publications

1. Boudouridis, A.,

H. E. Spence, and T. G. Onsager, Investigation of magnetopause

reconnection models using two co-located,

low-altitude satellites: A unifying reconnection geometry, J. Geophys. Res., 106,

29,451-29,466, 2001.

2. B

oudouridis, A., H. E. Spence, and T. G. Onsager, A new look at the pulsed reconnection model of the dayside magnetopause, Adv. Space Res., 30, (10), 2295-2300, 2002.

Boudouridis, A., H. E. Spence, and T. G. Onsager, Formation of the LLBL in the context of a unifying magnetopause reconnection mechanism, Earth's Low-Latitude Boundary Layer, Geophys. Monogr. Ser., vol. 133, edited by P. T. Newell and T. G. Onsager, pp. 131-138, AGU, Washington, D. C., 2003.

Boudouridis, A., E. Zesta, L. R. Lyons, P. C. Anderson, and D. Lummerzheim, Effect of solar wind pressure pulses on the size and strength of the auroral oval, J. Geophys. Res.,

108(A4), 8012, doi:10.1029/2002JA009373, 2003.

Boudouridis, A., E. Zesta, L. R. Lyons, P. C. Anderson, and D. Lummerzheim, Magnetospheric reconnection driven by solar wind pressure fronts, Ann. Geophys., 22, 1367-1378, 2004.

6. Boudouridis, A., E. Zesta, L. R. Lyons, and P. C. Anderson, Evaluation of the Hill-Siscoe transpolar potential saturation model during a solar wind dynamic pressure pulse, Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L23802, doi: 10.1029/2004GL021252, 2004.

7. Boudouridis, A., E. Zesta, L. R. Lyons, P. C. Anderson, and D. Lummerzheim, Enhanced solar wind geoeffectiveness after a sudden increase in dynamic pressure during southward IMF orientation, J. Geophys. Res., 110, A05214, doi:10.1029/2004JA010704

, 2005.

8. Shi, Y., E. Zesta, L. R. Lyons, A. Boudouridis, K. Yumoto, and K. Kitamura, Effect of solar wind pressure enhancements on storm time ring current asymmetry, J. Geophys. Res., 110, A10205, doi:10.1029/2005JA011019, 2005.

Contact

thanasis@atmos.ucla.edu

Office

7115 Math Sciences Building

Phone: (310) 825-1659

Fax: (310) 206-5219

Mailing Address

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