Space Physics, Magnetopshere Physics, Space weahter

2004-07--2009-12   University of Minnesota  Ph.D
2000-09--2004-07  University of Science and Technology of China, B.S

   

2010.1-2015  University of Minnesota, School of Physics and Astronomy, Research Associate

2015.1- now，National Space Science Center, State Key Laboratory of Space Weather, PI, Magnetosphere goup leader。

First author/Correspondng Author papers: 

1.        Dai, L.*, Zhu, M., Ren, Y. et al. Global-scale magnetosphere convection driven by dayside magnetic reconnection. Nat Commun 15, 639 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-44992-y

2.        Xiong, S., Dai, L.*, Wang, C., Yang, X., Wygant, J. R., & Baker, D. N. (2024). Rapid relativistic electron enhancements and associated particle injections: A multi-spacecraft statistical study. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 129, e2023JA032095. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JA032095

3.        Ren, Y, Dai, L.*, Wang, C., Guo, Z. (2023). The Wave Growth, Saturation, and Electron Heating of Lower Hybrid Waves in the Magnetic Reconnection Exhaust. The Astrophysical Journal, 956(143), https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acf855.

4.        Ren Y, Dai, L.*, Wang C, Zhou M, Wang R S. 2024. Advancements in the study of collisionless magnetic reconnection and plasma waves. Reviews of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, 55(0): 1-25 (in Chinese). doi: 10.19975/j.dqyxx.2023-031

5.        Guo, Z., Dai, L.*, Wang, C., & Ren, Y. (2023). Statistical properties of lower hybrid waves within foreshock transient boundaries. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 128, e2023JA031844.  https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JA031844

6.        Dai, L*, Han, Y.，Wang, C., Yao, S., Gonzalez, W., et al. (2023). Geoeffectiveness of Interplanetary Alfven waves: I. Magnetopause Magnetic Reconnection and Directly-Driven Substorms. The Astrophysical Journal, 945(1),47， https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acb267

7.        Han, Y.，Dai, L.*, Yao, S., Wang, C., Gonzalez,W., et al. (2023). Geoeffectiveness of Interplanetary Alfven Waves: II. Spectral Characteristics and Geomagnetic Responses. The Astrophysical Journal, 945(1), 48，https://doi.org/ 10.3847/1538-4357/acb266

8.        Ren, Y., Dai, L*, Wang, C., & Lavraud, B. (2023). Statistical Properties of Lower Hybrid Waves in the Magnetopause Reconnection Exhaust Region. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 128,  e2022JA031242. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JA031242

9.        Dai, L*, Wang, C. Kinetic Alfven wave (KAW) eigenmode in magnetosphere magnetic reconnection. Rev. Mod. Plasma Phys. 7, 3 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41614-022-00107-y

10.    Ren, Y., Dai, L.*, Wang, C., & Lavraud, B. (2022). Parallel Electron Heating through Landau Resonance with Lower Hybrid Waves at the Edge of Reconnection Ion Jets. The Astrophysical Journal, 928(1), 5. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac53fb.

11.    Guo, Z., Dai, L*., Ren, Y., & Wang, C. (2022). MMS observations of lower hybrid and whistler waves inside a foreshock transient. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 127, e2022JA030707. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JA030707

12.    Xiong, S.-L, Dai, L.*, Wang, C., Wygant, J., Cattell,C., Tao, X., Baker,D., Blake, J., (2022). Relativistic Electron Enhancements through Successive Dipolarizations during a CIR-driven Storm. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 127,e2021JA030088. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JA030088

13.    Dai, L.*, Wang, C., & Lavraud, B. (2021). Kinetic imprints of ion acceleration in collisionless magnetic reconnection. The Astrophysical Journal, 919(1), 15.

14.    Huang, Y., Dai, L.*, Wang, C., Xu, R. L. and Li, L. (2021). A new inversion method for reconstruction of plasmaspheric He+ density from EUV images. Earth Planet. Phys., 5(2), 218–222. http://doi.org/10.26464/epp2021020

15.    Ren, Y., Dai, L.*, Wang, C., Li, W., Tao, X., Lavraud, B., & Le Contel, O. (2021). Statistical characteristics in the spectrum of whistler waves near the diffusion region of dayside magnetopause reconnection. Geophysical Research Letters,48, e2020GL090816. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL090816

16.    Dai L*, Wang C, Cai Z, Gonzalez W,Hesse M, Escoubet P, Phan T, Vasyliunas V, Lu Q, Li L, Kong L,Dunlop M, Nakamura R, He J, Fu H, Zhou M, Huang S, Wang R,

Khotyaintsev Y, Graham D, Retino A, Zelenyi L, Grigorenko EE, Runov A,Angelopoulos V, Kepko L, Hwang K-J and Zhang Y (2020) AME: A Cross-Scale Constellation of CubeSats to Explore Magnetic Reconnection in the Solar–Terrestrial Relation. Front. Phys. 8:89. doi: 10.3389/fphy.2020.00089

17.      Li, L.‐F., Tu, W*., Dai, L.*, Tang, B.‐B., Wang, C., Barani, M., et al (2020).Quantifying event‐specific radial diffusion coefficients of radiation belt electrons with the PPMLR‐MHD simulation. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 125 (5), e2019JA027634. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JA027634

18.      Ren, Y., Dai, L*., Li, W., Tao, X.,Wang, C., Tang, B., et al. (2019). Whistler waves driven by field-aligned streaming electrons in the near-Earth magnetotail reconnection. Geophysical Research Letters, 46. https://doi.org/10. 1029/2019GL083283

19.      L. Q. Zhang, W. Baumjohann, L.Dai*, Yu. V. Khotyaintsev, C.Wang (2019). Measurements of the vorticity in the Bursty Bulk Flows. Geophysical Research Letters, Geophysical Research Letters, 46(17-18), 10322-10329.

20.      Chao Wei, Lei Dai*, Suping Duan, Chi Wang and Yuxian Wang, Multiple Satellites Observation Evidence: High-m Poloidal ULF Waves with Time-varying Polarization States, Earth and Planetary Physics, (2019). Earth Planet. Phys., 3(3), 1–7. http://doi.org/10.26464/epp2019021

21.      Lei Dai*. (2018). Structures of Hall fields in asymmetric magnetic reconnection. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 123. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JA025251

22.      Hongtao Huang, Yiqun Yu*, Lei Dai*, Tieyan Wang， (2018), Kinetic Alfvén Waves Excited in Two-Dimensional Magnetic Reconnection. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 123. https://doi.org/10.1029/2017JA025071

23.    Lei Dai*; Chi Wang; Yongcun Zhang; Benoit Lavraud; James Burch; Craig Pollock; Roy B.Torbert, Kinetic Alfven wave explanations of the Hall fields in magnetic reconnection, Geophysical Research Letters, 2017, (44): 634~640

24.    S. P. Duan* ; Lei Dai*; Chi Wang; J. Liang; A. T. Y. Lui; L. J.Chen; Z. H. He; Y. C. Zhang; V. Angelopoulos, Evidence of kinetic Alfvén eigenmode in the near-Earth magnetotail during substorm expansion phase, Journal of Geophysical Research, 2016, 121(5): 4316~4330

25.    Zhaohai He ; Lei Dai* ; Chi Wang; Suping Duan; Lingqian Zhang; Chen Tao; I. Roth, Contributions of substorm injections to SYM‐H depressions in the main phase of storms, Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 2016.12.03, 121(12): 11,729~11,736

26.    L. Q. Zhang ; L. Dai* ; W. Baumjohann; A. T. Y. Lui; C. Wang; H. Rème; M. W. Dunlop, Temporal evolutions of the solar wind conditions at 1 AU prior to the near-Earth X-lines in the tail: Superposed epoch analysis: SW conditions prior to tail X-lines., Journal of Geophysical Research, 2016.07.01, 121(8): 7488~7496

27.    Lei Dai* ; Chi Wang; Suping Duan; Zhaohai He; John R. Wygant; Cynthia A Cattell; Xin Tao; Zhenpeng Su; Craig Kletzing; Daniel N. Baker; Xinlin Li; David Malaspina; Bernard J Blake; Joseph Fennell; Seth Claudepierre; Drew L.Turner; Geoffrey D. Reeves; Herbert O. Funsten; Harlan E. Spence; Vassilis Angelopoulos; Dennis Fruehauff; Lunjin Chen; Scott Thaller; Aaron Breneman; Xiangwei Tang, Near-Earth Injection of MeV Electrons associated with Intense Dipolarization Electric Fields, Geophysical Research Letters, 2015.08.10, 42(15): 6170~6179

28.    Lei Dai *; Kazue Takahashi; Robert Lysak; Chi Wang; John R. Wygant; Craig Kletzing; John Bonnell; Cynthia A. Cattell; Charles W. Smith; Robert J. MacDowall; Scott Thaller; Aaron Breneman; Xiangwei Tang; Xin Tao; Lunjin Chen,Storm-time occurrence and Spatial distribution of Pc4 poloidal ULF waves in the inner magnetosphere: A Van Allen Probes Statistical study, Journal of Geophysical Research, 2015.06.23, 120(6): 4748~4762

29.    Lei Dai* ; Chi Wang; Vassilis Angelopoulos; Karl-Heinz Glassmeier,In situ Evidence of Breaking the Ion Frozen-in Condition via the Non-gyrotropic Pressure Effect in Magnetic Reconnection, Annales Geophysicae, 2015.09.17, 33(9): 1147~1153

30.    Suping Duan* ; Lei Dai* ; Chi Wang; A. T. Y. Lui; Zhenxing Liu; Zhaohai He; Yongcun Zhang; I. Dandouras; H. Reme, Cluster observations of unusually high concentration of energetic O+ carried by flux ropes in the night-side high-latitude magnetosheath during a storm initial phase, Journal of Geophysical Research, 2015.10.03, 120(10): 8317~8326

31.    Dai, Lei *; Wygant, John R.; Cattell, Cynthia A.; Thaller, Scott;Kersten, Kris; Breneman, Aaron; Tang, Xiangwei; Friedel, Reiner H.;Claudepierre, Seth G.; Tao, Xin, Evidence for injection of relativistic electrons into the Earth's outer radiation belt via intense substorm electric fields , Geophysical Research Letters, 2014.2.28, 41(4): 1133~1141

32.    Lei Dai*, John R. Wygant, Cynthia A. Cattell, Scott Thaller, Kris Kersten, Aaron Breneman, Xiangwei Tang: Cluster observations of fast magnetosonic waves in the heliosphere current sheet. Geophysical Research Letters, 2014; 41(5). 1398–1405

33.    Dai, Lei *; Takahashi, Kazue; Wygant, John R.; Chen, Liu; Bonnell, John; Cattell, Cynthia A.; Thaller, Scott; Kletzing, Craig; Smith, Charles W.;MacDowall, Robert J.; Baker, Daniel N.; Blake, J. Bernard; Fennell, Joseph;Claudepierre, Seth; Funsten, Herbert O.; Reeves, Geoffrey D.; Spence, Harlan E., Excitation of poloidal standing Alfven waves through drift resonance wave-particle interaction , Geophysical Research Letters, 2013.8.28, 40(16):4127~4132

34.    Dai, L.*, Wygant, J. R., Cattell, C., Dombeck, J., Thaller, S., Mouikis, C., Balogh, A., and Rème, H.: Cluster observations of surface waves in the ion jets from magnetotail reconnection, J. Geophys. Res.-Space, 116, A12227, doi:10.1029/2011JA017004, 2011.

35.    Lei Dai*: Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection via Alfvén Eigenmodes, Phys. Rev. Lett., 102, 245003, doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.245003, 2009.

1.        Jorgensen, A. M., Sun, T. R., Huang, Y., Li, L., Xu, R., Dai, L., and Wang, C. (2024). Tomographic reconstruction of the Earth’s magnetosheath from multiple spacecraft: a theoretical study. Earth Planet. Phys., 8(1), 204–214. doi:  10.26464/epp2023088

2.        Wang, Z., Liu, X. Y., Fu, H. S., Cao, J. B., Dai, L., Toledo-Redondo, S., ... & Guo, Z. Z. (2023). First Observation of Kinetic Alfvén Waves behind Reconnection Front in Terrestrial Magnetotail. The Astrophysical Journal, 960(1), 45.

3.        HE ZhaoHai, XU JiYao, WANG Chi, DAI Lei, CHEN Tao, ROTH Ilan. 2023. A statistical survey on high-energy protons response to geomagnetic storm in the inner radiation belt. Chinese Journal of Geophysics (in Chinese), 66(2): 455-471, doi: 10.6038/cjg2022Q0214

4.        Zhang, Y. C., Wang, C., Dai, L., Tang, S. Y., & Burch, J. L. (2023). The role of a strong out-of-plane magnetic field at the X-line in antiparallel magnetic reconnection as a guide field. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 128, e2022JA031102. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JA031102

5.        Carmo CS, Dai L, Denardini CM, Figueiredo CAOB, Wrasse CM, Resende LCA, Barros D, Moro J, Chen SS, Picanço GAS, Silva RP, Wang C, Li H and Liu Z (2023) Equatorial plasma bubbles features over the Brazilian sector according to the solar cycle and geomagnetic activity level. Front. Astron. Space Sci. 10:1252511. doi: 10.3389/fspas.2023.1252511

6.         He, Z., Dai, L., Wang, C., Chen, T., Duan, S., & Roth, I. (2023). Characteristics of isolated and storm-time ion injections. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 128, e2022JA030745. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JA030745

7.        He, Z., Xu, J., Dai, L., Wang, C., Chen, T., Duan, S., & Roth, I. (2023). Characteristics of high-energy protons in the equatorial plane of inner radiation belt observed by Van Allen Probes. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 128, e2023JA031484. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JA031484

8.        He, Z., Xu, J., Wang, C., Dai, L., Ni, B., & Roth, I. (2023). Evidence of H⁺-band EMIC waves in the inner radiation belt observed by Van Allen Probes during magnetic storms. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 128, e2022JA031088. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JA031088

9.        Zhang, L. Q., Wang, C., Dai, L., Ren, Y., & Lui, A. T. (2022). A statistical study on wide-amplitude kinetic Alfvénic pulse at 8–12RE in the magnetotail by THEMIS spacecraft from 2008 to 2010. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 127, e2021JA029593. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JA029593

10.    Li Wang, Xiaochao Yang, Lei Dai, Chi Wang, Huanxin Zhang, Zheng Chang, Shenyi Zhang, Tao Jing, An on-orbit cross-calibration between the relativistic electron observations from BeiDou M04 and GPS ns63,Advances in Space Research,Volume 70, Issue 10, 2022,Pages 2805-2817,ISSN 0273-1177, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2022.08.083.

11.    Marchezi, J. P., Dai, L., Alves, L. R., Da Silva, L. A., Sibeck, D. G., Lago, A. D.,et al. (2022). Electron flux variability and ultra-low frequency wave activity in the outer radiation belt under the influence of interplanetary coronal mass ejections and High-Speed solar wind streams: A statistical analysis from the Van Allen Probes era. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics,127, e2021JA029887.

12.    Duan, S., Dai, L. & Wang, C. Kinetic Alfvén waves in the magnetotail during substorms. Rev. Mod. Plasma Phys. 6, 40 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41614-022-00100-5

13.    Zhang, L. Q., Wang, C., Dai, L., Baumjohann, W., Lui, A. T. Y., Burch, J. L., et al. (2022). Vorticity within bursty bulk flows: Convective versus kinetic. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 127, e2020JA028934. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JA028934

14.    Zhang, L.Q., Wang, C., Dai, L. et al. Turbulent current sheet frozen in bursty bulk flow: observation and model. Sci Rep 12, 15547 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-19266-6

15.    Yong Cun Zhang, Lei Dai , Chi Wang , and Si Yao Tang, (2022). Evidence of the Hall Effect Providing the Core Field inside a Magnetic Flux Rope in an Antiparallel Magnetic Reconnection, The Astrophysical Journal, 940(2),179.

16.    Jorgensen, A. M., Xu, R., Sun, T., Huang, Y., Li, L., Dai, L., & Wang, C. (2022). A theoretical study of the tomographic reconstruction of magnetosheath X-ray emissions. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 127, e2021JA029948. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JA029948

17.    Huang, H. T., Yu, Y. Q., Cao, J. B., Dai, L. and Wang, R. S. (2021). On the ion distributions at the separatrices during symmetric magnetic reconnection. Earth Planet. Phys., 5(2), 205–217. http://doi.org/10.26464/epp2021019

18.    Tang, S. Y., Zhang, Y. C., Dai, L., Chen, T., & Wang, C. (2021). MMS Observation of the Hall Field in an Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection with Guide Field. The Astrophysical Journal, 922(2), 96.

19.    Zhang, L. Q., Wang, C., Dai, L., Fu, H. S., Lui, A. T. Y., Baumjohann, W., ... & Khotyaintsev, Y. V. (2021). MMS Observation on the Cross-Tail Current Sheet Roll-up at the Dipolarization Front. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 126(4), e2020JA028796.

20.    Retino, A., et al., (2021). Particle energization in space plasmas: towards a multi-point, multi-scale plasma observatory. Experimental Astronomy, 1-45.

21.    Su, B., Kong, L. G., Zhang, A. B., Klecker, B., Escoubet, C. P., Kataria, D. O., & Dai, L. (2021). Performance and simulated moment uncertainties of an ion spectrometer with asymmetric 2π field of view for ion measurements in space. Review of Scientific Instruments, 92(2), 024501.

22.    Gu, C., Yao, S., & Dai, L. (2020). Abundances and Charge States of Heavy Ions in ICMEs Highly Related to Speed and Solar Activity. The Astrophysical Journal, 900(2), 123.

23.    Zhang, Y. C., Dai, L., Rong, Z. J., Wang, C., Rème, H., Dandouras, I., et al. (2020). Observation of the large-amplitude and fast-damped plasma sheet flapping triggered by reconnection-induced ballooning instability. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 125, e2020JA028218.

24.    Zhang, A., Wieser, M., Wang, C., Barabash, S., Wang, W., Wang, X.，Zou, Y., Li,L., Cao,J., Kalla,L., Dai, L., Svensson, J., Kong, L., Oja,M., Liu,B., Alatalo, V., Zhang, Y., Talonen, J., Sun, Y., Emanuelsson, M., Xue, C., Wang,L., Wang, F.  (2020). Emission of energetic neutral atoms measured on the lunar surface by Chang’E-4. Planetary and Space Science, 104970.

25.    L. Q. Zhang , W. Baumjohann , Yu. V. Khotyaintsev , James L. Burch, J. Webster, J. Y. Wang, C. Wang, L. Dai , C. Y. Zhang (2020). BBF deceleration down‐tail of X<‐15 RE from MMS observation. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 125(2), https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JA026837

26.    Zeng, C., Wang, C., Duan, S., Dai, L., Fuselier, S. A., Burch, J. L., et al. (2020). Statistical study of oxygen ions abundance and spatial distribution in the dayside magnetopause boundary layer: MMS observations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 125, e2019JA027323. https://doi.org/ 10.1029/2019JA027323

27.    Zeng, C., Duan, S., Wang, C., Dai, L., Fuselier, S., Burch, J., Torbert, R., Giles, B., and Russell, C.: Magnetospheric Multiscale observations of energetic oxygen ions at the duskside magnetopause during intense substorms, Ann. Geophys., 38, 123–135, https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-38-123-2020, 2020.

28.     Suping Duan, Lei Dai , Chi Wang, Chunlin Cai, Zhaohai He ,Yongcun Zhang, H. Reme, I. Dandouras (2019). Conjunction Observations of Energetic Oxygen Ions O+ Accumulated in the Sequential Flux Ropes in the High‐Altitude Cusp. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 124(10), 7912-7922.

29.    Liu, Y & Fu, H & Olshevsky, V & Pontin, D & Liu, Chengming & Wang, Zhe & Chen, G & Dai, L & Retinò, Alessandro. (2019). SOTE: A Nonlinear Method for Magnetic Topology Reconstruction in Space Plasmas. Astrophys. J. Suppl. S., 244, 31, doi:10.3847/1538-4365/ab391a

30.    B. -B. Tang, W. Y. Li, D. B. Graham, A. C. Rager, C. Wang, Yu. V. Khotyaintsev, B. Lavraud, H. Hasegawa, Y. -C. Zhang, L. Dai, B. L. Giles, J. C. Dorelli, C. T. Russell, P. -A. Lindqvist, R. E. Ergun, J. L. Burch. (2019) Crescent-shaped electron distributions at the non-reconnecting magnetopause: Magnetospheric Multiscale observations. Geophysical Research Letters 03/2019;, DOI:10.1029/2019GL082231

31.    Li, B., Han, D. S., Hu, Z. J., Hu, H. Q., Liu, J. J., Dai, L., ... & Lindqvist, P. A. (2019). Magnetospheric Multiscale Observations of ULF Waves and Correlated Low‐Energy Ion Monoenergetic Acceleration. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 124(4), 2788-2794.

32.    Jorgensen, A. M., Sun, T., Wang, C., Dai, L., Sembay, S., Zheng, J., & Yu, X. (2019). Boundary Detection in Three Dimensions With Application to the SMILE Mission: the Effect of Model‐fitting Noise. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 124(6), 4341-4355.

33.    Jorgensen, A. M., Sun, T., Wang, C.,Dai, L., Sembay, S., Wei, F., et al.(2019). Boundary detection in three dimensions with application to the smile mission: The effect of photonnoise. Journal of Geophysical Research:Space Physics,124, 4365–4383. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JA025919

34.    T. R. Sun, C. Wang, S. Sembay, R. E. Lopez, P. Escoubet, G. Branduardi-Raymont, J. H. Zheng, X. Z. Yu, X. C. Guo, L. Dai, Z. Q. Liu, F. Wei, Y. H. Guo: Soft X-ray imaging of the magnetosheath and cusps under different solar wind conditions: MHD simulations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 02/2019;, DOI:10.1029/2018JA026093

35.    Bin-Bin Tang, Wen-Ya Li, Chi Wang, Lei Dai, Jin-Peng Han: Effect of Kinetic Alfvén Waves on Electron Transport in an Ion-Scale Flux Rope. Chinese Physics Letters 11/2018; 35(11):119401., DOI:10.1088/0256-307X/35/11/119401

36.    Binbin Tang, Wenya Li, Chi Wang, Lei Dai, Yuri Khotyaintsev, Per-Arne Lindqvist, Robert Ergun, Olivier Le Contel, Craig Pollock, Christopher Russell, James Burch: Magnetic depression and electron transport in an ion-scale flux rope associated with Kelvin–Helmholtz waves. Annales Geophysicae 06/2018; 36(3):879-889., DOI:10.5194/angeo-36-879-2018

37.    Shangchun Teng, Xin Tao, Wen Li, Yi Qi, Xinliang Gao, Lei Dai, Quanming Lu, Shui Wang: A statistical study of the spatial distribution and source-region size of chorus waves using Van Allen Probes data. Annales Geophysicae 06/2018; 36(3):867-878., DOI:10.5194/angeo-36-867-2018

38.    Suping Duan, Lei Dai, Chi Wang, Zhaohai He, Chunlin Cai, Y. C. Zhang, I. Dandouras, H. Reme, M. André, Y. V. Khotyaintsev: Oxygen Ions O + Energized by Kinetic Alfvén Eigenmode During Dipolarizations of Intense Substorms: O + Ions Energized by KAWE at PSBL. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 10/2017; 122(A2)., DOI:10.1002/2017JA024418

39.    Zhang, Y. C., et al. (2017), Quantitative analysis of a Hall system in the exhaust of asymmetric magnetic reconnection, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, 122, 5277– 5289, doi:10.1002/2016JA023620.

40.    L. Q. Zhang, W. Baumjohann, C. Wang, L. Dai, B. B. Tang: Bursty bulk flows at different magnetospheric activity levels: Dependence on IMF conditions: Bursty bulk flows at different MALs. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 09/2016; 121(9)., DOI:10.1002/2016JA022397

41.    Zhiyang Xia, Lunjin Chen, Lei Dai, Seth G. Claudepierre, Anthony A. Chan, A. R. Soto-Chavez, G. D. Reeves: Modulation of chorus intensity by ULF waves deep in the inner magnetosphere: Chorus Modulation. Geophysical Research Letters 09/2016; 43(18)., DOI:10.1002/2016GL070280

42.    L. Q. Zhang, L. Dai, W. Baumjohann, H. Rème, M. W. Dunlop, X. H. Wei: Parallel-dominant and perpendicular-dominant components of the fast bulk flow: Comparing with the PSBL beams. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 11/2015; 120(11):n/a-n/a., DOI:10.1002/2015JA021669

43.    Xinxin Li, Xin Tao, Quanmin Lu, Lei Dai: Bounce resonance diffusion coefficients for spatially confined waves. Geophysical Research Letters 10/2015; 42(22):n/a-n/a., DOI:10.1002/2015GL066324

44.    L.Q. Zhang, J.Y. Wang, W. Baumjohann, H. Rème, L. Dai, M. W. Dunlop, T. Chen, Y. Huang: X-lines in the magnetotail for southward and northward IMF conditions. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 09/2015; 120(9)., DOI:10.1002/2015JA021503

45.    G. I. Korotova, D. G. Sibeck, K. Tahakashi, L. Dai, H. E. Spence, C. A. Kletzing, J. R. Wygant, J. W. Manweiler, P. S. Moya, K.-J. Hwang, R. J. Redmon: Van Allen Probe observations of drift-bounce resonances with Pc 4 pulsations and wave–particle interactions in the pre-midnight inner magnetosphere. Annales Geophysicae 08/2015; 33(8-8):955-964., DOI:10.5194/angeo-33-955-2015

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