Michelle F. Thomsen

Research.com Recognitions

• 2019 - Arctowski Medal, U.S. National Academy of Sciences For her fundamental contributions to our understanding of the relationships between the sun and its planetary bodies, with a particular emphasis on the physics of collisionless shocks and the dynamics of the planetary magnetospheres of Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn." 2017,Mats Carlsson
• 2001 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Best Publications

• Cassini plasma spectrometer investigation

  D. T. Young;J. J. Berthelier;M. Blanc;J. L. Burch

  736
  Citations

• Helium, Oxygen, Proton, and Electron (HOPE) Mass Spectrometer for the Radiation Belt Storm Probes Mission

  H. O. Funsten;R. M. Skoug;A. A. Guthrie;E. A. MacDonald

  538
  Citations

• The driving of the plasma sheet by the solar wind

  Joseph E. Borovsky;Michelle F. Thomsen;Richard C. Elphic

  523
  Citations

• Science Goals and Overview of the Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) Energetic Particle, Composition, and Thermal Plasma (ECT) Suite on NASA’s Van Allen Probes Mission

  H. E. Spence;G. D. Reeves;D. N. Baker;J. B. Blake

  521
  Citations

• Electron velocity distributions near the Earth's bow shock

  W. C. Feldman;R. C. Anderson;S. J. Bame;S. P. Gary

  472
  Citations

• Observations of reconnection of interplanetary and lobe magnetic field lines at the high‐latitude magnetopause

  J. T. Gosling;M. F. Thomsen;S. J. Bame;R. C. Elphic

  414
  Citations

• The Earth's plasma sheet as a laboratory for flow turbulence in high-β MHD

  Joseph E. Borovsky;Richard C. Elphic;Herbert O. Funsten;Michelle F. Thomsen

  350
  Citations

• Dominant role of the asymmetric ring current in producing the stormtime Dst

  M. W. Liemohn;J. U. Kozyra;M. F. Thomsen;J. L. Roeder

  350
  Citations

• Plasma flow reversals at the dayside magnetopause and the origin of asymmetric polar cap convection

  J. T. Gosling;M. F. Thomsen;S. J. Bame;R. C. Elphic

  345
  Citations

• Composition and dynamics of plasma in Saturn's magnetosphere.

  D. T. Young;Jean-Jacques Berthelier;M. Blanc;J. L. Burch

  338
  Citations

• Modeling ring current proton precipitation by electromagnetic ion cyclotron waves during the May 14-16, 1997, storm

  V. K. Jordanova;Charlie J. Farrugia;R. M. Thorne;G. V. Khazanov

  324
  Citations

• Plasma sheet access to geosynchronous orbit

  H. Korth;M. F. Thomsen;J. E. Borovsky;D. J. McComas

  278
  Citations

• Evidence for specularly reflected ions upstream from the quasi‐parallel bow shock

  J. T. Gosling;M. F. Thomsen;S. J. Bame;W. C. Feldman

  276
  Citations

• The electron edge of low latitude boundary layer during accelerated flow events

  J. T. Gosling;M. F. Thomsen;S. J. Bame;T. G. Onsager

  268
  Citations

• Geomagnetic storms driven by ICME- and CIR-dominated solar wind

  Michael H. Denton;Michael H. Denton;Joseph E. Borovsky;R. M. Skoug;M. F. Thomsen

  263
  Citations

• Ions upstream of the Earth's bow shock: A theoretical comparison of alternative source populations

  Steven J. Schwartz;Michelle F. Thomsen;John T. Gosling

  257
  Citations

• Characteristic plasma properties during dispersionless substorm injections at geosynchronous orbit

  J. Birn;M. F. Thomsen;J. E. Borovsky;G. D. Reeves

  256
  Citations

• Survey of ion plasma parameters in Saturn's magnetosphere

  M. F. Thomsen;D. B. Reisenfeld;D. M. Delapp;R. L. Tokar

  256
  Citations

• Hot, diamagnetic cavities upstream from the Earth's bow shock

  M. F. Thomsen;J. T. Gosling;S. A. Fuselier;S. J. Bame

  248
  Citations

• Magnetospheric plasma analyzer for spacecraft with constrained resources

  S. J. Bame;D. J. McComas;M. F. Thomsen;B. L. Barraclough

  234
  Citations