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  • 2011 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Richard B. Horne is affiliated with the British Antarctic Survey in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of physics and astronomy, with a particular emphasis on Earth and planetary sciences.

The scientist's work covers diverse subfields including astronomy and astrophysics, geophysics, molecular biology, atmospheric science, and aerospace engineering. Key topics in their research focus on ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics, solar and space plasma dynamics, earthquake detection and analysis, astro and planetary science, geomagnetism and paleomagnetism studies, atmospheric ozone and climate, and magnetic confinement fusion research.

The publication record includes papers in several prominent venues. Frequent publication venues consist of:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Space Weather
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Richard B. Horne include:

  • Global Model of Whistler Mode Chorus in the Near-Equatorial Region (|λm|< 18°), 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Development of Space Weather Reasonable Worst-Case Scenarios for the UK National Risk Assessment, 2021, Space Weather
  • Ducted Chorus Waves Cause Sub-Relativistic and Relativistic Electron Microbursts, 2022, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Space Plasma Physics: A Review, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science
  • ULF Wave Driven Radial Diffusion During Geomagnetic Storms: A Statistical Analysis of Van Allen Probes Observations, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics

The list of frequent co-authors highlights collaboration with various researchers, including:

  • S. A. Glauert
  • Lunjin Chen
  • Nigel P. Meredith
  • Jacob Bortnik
  • Zhiyang Xia

Richard B. Horne has also contributed to academic literature through book publications. One known book is Plasma Waves in Space Physics: Carrying On the Research Legacies of Peter Gary and Richard Thorne, published in 2023 by Frontiers Media.

Recognition of their work includes being named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2011.

Best Publications

  • Timescale for radiation belt electron acceleration by whistler mode chorus waves

    Richard B. Horne;Richard M. Thorne;Sarah A. Glauert;Jay M. Albert

  • Potential waves for relativistic electron scattering and stochastic acceleration during magnetic storms

    Richard B. Horne;Richard M. Thorne

  • Wave acceleration of electrons in the Van Allen radiation belts

    Richard B. Horne;Richard M. Thorne;Yuri Y. Shprits;Nigel P. Meredith

  • Substorm dependence of chorus amplitudes: Implications for the acceleration of electrons to relativistic energies

    Nigel P. Meredith;Richard B. Horne;Roger R. Anderson

  • Scattering by chorus waves as the dominant cause of diffuse auroral precipitation

    Richard M. Thorne;Binbin Ni;Xin Tao;Richard B. Horne;Richard B. Horne

  • Calculation of pitch angle and energy diffusion coefficients with the PADIE code

    Sarah A. Glauert;Richard B. Horne

  • 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

  • Statistical analysis of relativistic electron energies for cyclotron resonance with EMIC waves observed on CRRES

    Nigel P. Meredith;Richard M. Thorne;Richard B. Horne;Danny Summers;Danny Summers

  • Electron acceleration in the Van Allen radiation belts by fast magnetosonic waves

    Richard B. Horne;Richard M. Thorne;Sarah A. Glauert;Nigel P. Meredith

  • Substorm dependence of plasmaspheric hiss

    Nigel P. Meredith;Richard B. Horne;Richard M. Thorne;Danny Summers;Danny Summers

  • Timescale for MeV electron microburst loss during geomagnetic storms

    Richard M. Thorne;T.P. O'Brien;Y.Y. Shprits;Danny Summers

  • Relativistic electron acceleration and precipitation during resonant interactions with whistler-mode chorus

    R. B. Horne;R. M. Thorne

  • Favored regions for chorus‐driven electron acceleration to relativistic energies in the Earth's outer radiation belt

    Nigel P. Meredith;Richard B. Horne;Richard M. Thorne;Roger R. Anderson

  • Slot region electron loss timescales due to plasmaspheric hiss and lightning‐generated whistlers

    Nigel P. Meredith;Richard B. Horne;Sarah A. Glauert;Roger R. Anderson

  • Evidence for chorus‐driven electron acceleration to relativistic energies from a survey of geomagnetically disturbed periods

    Nigel P. Meredith;Michelle Cain;Richard B. Horne;Richard M. Thorne

  • Global model of lower band and upper band chorus from multiple satellite observations

    Nigel P. Meredith;Richard B. Horne;Angélica Sicard-Piet;Daniel Boscher

  • On the preferred source location for the convective amplification of ion cyclotron waves

    Richard B. Horne;Richard M. Thorne

  • Three-dimensional electron radiation belt simulations using the BAS Radiation Belt Model with new diffusion models for chorus, plasmaspheric hiss, and lightning-generated whistlers

    Sarah A. Glauert;Richard B. Horne;Nigel P. Meredith

  • Path-integrated growth of electrostatic waves: The generation of terrestrial myriametric radiation

    R. B. Horne

  • Survey of magnetosonic waves and proton ring distributions in the Earth's inner magnetosphere

    Nigel P. Meredith;Richard B. Horne;Roger R. Anderson

  • Outer zone relativistic electron acceleration associated with substorm‐enhanced whistler mode chorus

    Nigel P. Meredith;Richard B. Horne;Roger H. A. Iles;Richard M. Thorne

Frequent Co-Authors

Nigel P. Meredith
Nigel P. Meredith British Antarctic Survey
Richard M. Thorne
Richard M. Thorne University of California, Los Angeles
Yuri Shprits
Yuri Shprits University of Potsdam
Roger R. Anderson
Roger R. Anderson University of Iowa
Jacob Bortnik
Jacob Bortnik University of California, Los Angeles
Mark A. Clilverd
Mark A. Clilverd British Antarctic Survey
Vania K. Jordanova
Vania K. Jordanova Los Alamos National Laboratory
Daniel N. Baker
Daniel N. Baker University of Colorado Boulder
Michael H. Denton
Michael H. Denton Space Science Institute
Ian R. Mann
Ian R. Mann University of Alberta

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