Intermediate nonlinear regimes of line-tied g mode and ballooning instability th/p4-18... This work is motivated by the correlation of edge localized mode (ELM) activity in H-mode plasmas with ideal MHD peeling-ballooning instability....
Kinetic ballooning instability as a substorm onset mechanismA new scenario of substorm onset and current disruption and the corresponding physical processes are presented based on the AMPTE/CCE spacecraft observation and a kinetic ballooning instability theory....
Initiation of ballooning instability in the near-earth plasma sheet prior to the 23 march 2007 themis substorm expansion onset... The ballooning instability criterion isevaluated using eigenvalue analyses for the near-Earth plasma sheetregion when the configuration attains a quasi-static equilibriumcondition...
Quasi-separatrix layers induced by ballooning instability in the near-earth magnetotail... Such reconnection processescan be induced by the 3-D dynamics of nonlinear ballooning instability....
