Tohru Araki
Commendation
For outstanding contributions to the Solar-Terrestrial Physics through studies on the dynamical effects of the solar wind pressure to the magnetosphere, and to the efforts of the Earth and planetary data preservation and access improvement
A list of five major papers
Araki,T., Anomalous phase changes of transequatorial VLF radio waves during geomagnetic storms, J. Geophys. Res., 79, 4811-4816, 1974.
Araki,T., Global structure of geomagnetic sudden commencements, Planet. Space Sci.,25, 373-384, 1977.
Araki,T., K. Schlegel and H. Luehr, Geomagnetic effects of the Hall and Pedersen current flowing in the auroral ionosphere. J. Geophys. Res., 94, 17185-17199, 1989.
Araki,T. A physical model of geomagnetic sudden commencement, Geophysical Monograph 81, 183-200, 1994.
Araki,T, Historically largest geomagnetic sudden commencement (SC) since 1868. Earth,Planets and Space, 66,164, 2014.
Nominator
Toshihiko Iyemori