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ROBERT CLAUER, Ph.D.

Professor, Associate Director of Space@VT
Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
National Institute of Aerospace

Director, Magnetospheric Ionospheric Science Team




Phone: 734-476-9800
E-mail: rclauer@vt.edu

Ph.D. Institution:
University of California at Los Angeles UCLA

Research Interests:

Magnetospheric Physics, Space Weather Investigations

Representative Publications:

DeJong, Anna D., and C. Robert Clauer, “Polar UVI images to study steady magnetospheric convection events: Initial results”, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L24101, doi:10.1029/2005GL024498, 2005.

Clauer, C. R., and G. Siscoe (editors), “The Great Historical Geomagnetic Storm of 1859: A Modern Look”, in Adv. Space Res., 38, 115-388, 2006.

Siscoe, G., N. U. Crooker, and C. R. Clauer, “Dst of the Carrington storm of 1859”, Adv. Space Res.,38, 173-179, 2006.

Clauer, C. Robert, Xia Cai, DanialWelling, Anna DeJong, and Michael G. Henderson, “Characterizing the April 18, 2002 storm-time sawtooth events using ground magnetic data”, J. Geophys. Res.,111, doi:10.1029/2005JA011099, 2006.

Cai, X., C. Robert Clauer and A. J. Ridley, “Statistical analysis of ionospheric potential patterns for isolated substorms and sawtooth events”, Ann. Geophys., 24, 1977-1991, 2006.

Clauer, C. Robert, “The geomagnetic storm-time response to different solar wind driving conditions”, in Solar Influence on the Heliosphere and Earth’s Environment: Recent Progress and Prospects N. Gopalswamy and A. Bhattacharyya (Eds.) 332-339, ISBN 81-87099-40-2, Indian Inst. Geomagnetism, Mumbai, 2006.

Cai, X., M. G. Henderson, and C. R. Clauer, “A statistical study of magnetic dipolarization for sawtooth events and isolated substorms at geosynchronous orbit with GOES data”, Ann. Geophys., 24, 3481-3490, 2006.

Papitashvili, Vladimir O., Valeriy G. Petrov, Anshuman B. Saxena, C. Robert Clauer, and Natalia E. Papitashvili, “A virtual global magnetic observatory network: VGMO.NET, Earth Planets Space, 58, 765 - 774, 2006.

DeJong, A. D., X. Cai, C. R. Clauer and J. F. Spann, “Aurora and open magnetic flux during isolated substorms, sawteeth, and SMC events”, Ann Geophys, 25, 1865 - 1876, 2007.

Belenkaya, E. S., I. I. Alexeev, and C. R. Clauer, “Magnetic field of the transition current system: dawn-dusk asymmetry”, Ann Geophys., 25, 1899-1911, 2007.

Watanabe, M, G. J. Sofko, K. Kabin, R. Rankin, A. J. Ridley, C. R. Clauer, and T. I. Gombosi, “The origin of the interhemispheric potential mismatch of merging cells for IMF BY-dominated periods”, J. Geophys. Res.,12, A10205, doi:10.1029/2006JA012179, 2007.

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