Current location:	Notte Inne Bedde
Current mood:	sleepy

...with blinding speed!
I last posted to this journal at 18:17 on the 31st... Faster than a speeding bullet one of my friends took up the gauntlet of righteousness and set out to beat some sense into me using it.

littlebluefish is the august personage in question... by 19:15 (only 58 minutes later) she had read, digested and called me about (and in fact on) my comments in my previous post. Dispelling my doom-n-gloomy with the verbal walloping of shiny-happiness.

Yes I have been reading too much Nodwick.

So to set the record straight:

1) My supervisors are pleased I have my data and are not peeved that I was a bit of a noodle about getting it.

2) My abstract for the MIST conference, to be submitted this afternoon, is complete and looks a lot like the following... W00T! and possibly even Yay! My first cut!


Analysing CLUSTER reconnection data using a Petshek-type computational model

J. D. Crofts(1), R. P. Rijnbeek(1), A. Buckley(1), P. Gough(1), A. Walsh(2)

(1) University of Sussex
(2) MSSL

Reconnection is an intrinsic requirement to the description of magnetospheric dynamics. The CLUSTER multi-spacecraft mission has, with its wide range of instruments, provided in-situ data of higher resolution than ever before. Analytical simulation models based on a Petshek-type reconnection layer, using the Rankine-Hugoniot jump conditions, have been constructed using information from dayside magnetopause crossings. In the past the jump conditions have been used as verifiers of MHD wave mode presence rather than comprising, as in this case, a complete analytic framework. Preliminary comparison between the models and observed data suggest that the method may be useful for, among other things, acting as a tool providing a description of the event structure, or allowing statistical classification of MHD wave modes involved in events in terms of crossing location or local conditions. Preliminary case studies have rendered promising correlations between models and observed data.


3) I have discovered that the best way to make a supervisor's day is to refuse to delete him from your list of co-authors.

Now I am going to go and spend time with a certain rather delightful woman of Japanese extraction because I have ignored her to an extremely cad-ish degree over the last 48 hours while trying to finish my work.

...I need to call my friends more too!