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Professor Robert Fear

Professor

Research interests

  • Magnetic reconnection
  • Large-scale solar wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling
  • Global magnetospheric dynamics

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Connect with Robert

Email: R.C.Fear@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 2099

Address: B46, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ
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Research Publications
Research Publications

Research

Research groups

Research interests

  • Magnetic reconnection
  • Large-scale solar wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling
  • Global magnetospheric dynamics
  • Formation, evolution and dynamics of transpolar arcs and other polar cap auroras
  • Formation, structure and global contribution of flux transfer events

Research projects

Active projects

Structure and dynamics of Earth’s magnetotail during periods of northward IMF
Researchers:
Professor Robert Fear
EISCAT_3D: Fine-scale structuring, scintillation, and electrodynamics (FINESSE)

Completed projects

Magnetospheric Physics at Southampton
Researchers:
Professor Robert Fear
Sponsor: Science And Technology Facilities Council
Ernest Rutherford Fellowship for Dr Robert Fear - Balancing the Magnetosphere.....
Researchers:
Professor Robert Fear
Sponsor: Science And Technology Facilities Council
Space Plasma and Magnetospheric Physics at Southampton (2021-4)
Sponsor: Science And Technology Facilities Council
RAS Grant: Support to attend AGU Fall Meeting 2016 - Reidy
Researchers:
Professor Robert Fear
Sponsor: Royal Astronomical Society
Space weather impacts on ground structures (SWIGS)
Researchers:
Professor Robert Fear
Fine-scale auroral structure: Causes and effects
RAS Grant: Support to attend AGU Fall Meeting 2016 - Browett
Researchers:
Professor Robert Fear
Sponsor: Royal Astronomical Society
Variability of Neutral Temperature in the High-Latitude Upper Atmosphere