Peer-reviewed publications

2024 Acceleration of an interplanetary shock through the magnetosheath: a global hybrid simulationC. Moissard, P. Savoini, D. Fontaine, R. ModoloDOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fspas.2024.1330397 2021 Interplanetary sheaths driven by magnetic clouds and their impact on Earth’s magnetosheathC. MoissardHAL: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-03249706v1 2020 Magnetic field fluctuation properties of coronal mass ejection-driven sheath regions in the near-Earth…

Where it all begins – Fusion in the sun’s core

I was wondering where this number \dot{M} = 620 \text{ million tons} comes from, and it turns out that what we observe is actually the light, neutrino and solar wind emitted by the sun, from which we deduce the power P_\odot delivered by the sun, from which we deduce the mass the Sun needs to be burning to explain that power. It is, to me, a bit frustrating, as I’d rather think from cause to effect than from effect to necessary cause.

Geoengineering – how I got interested

I had a vaguely weird feeling about it. In a very unrealistic and sci-fi way I started imagining myself standing up the day the operations start. Everything is very silent, and, like everyone else in the world, I am looking up at the sky, and planes start pouring long clouds of sulfates in the air, making everything look a bit more dull, a bit more yellow, or is it grey?