Syun-Ichi Akasofu

Commendation

For pioneering and outstanding achievements in Earth and planetary science in particular for deepening our understanding of magnetospheric disturbances including substorms and auroralstorms, and for internationally recognized contributions to the development of solar terrestrial physics.

A list of five major papers

• Akasofu, S.-I., The Development of the auroral substorm. Planetary and Space Science,12(4), 273-282, 1964, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0032-0633(64)90151-5
• Akasofu, S.-I. and S. Chapman, Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Clarendon Press, Oxford, England, 1972.
• Akasofu, S.-I., Physics of Magnetospheric Substorms, D. Reidel, Pub. Co., Dordrecht, Holland, 1977.
• Akasofu, S.-I., Energy coupling between the Solar-wind and the magnetosphere, Space Science Reviews, 28(2), 1981.
• Akasofu, S.-I., Auroral substorms as an electrical discharge phenomenon, Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 2, 2015, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40645-015-0050-9

Nominator

Takashi Kikuchi (Professor Emeritus, Institute for Space and Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University)