Satellite & Space Missions

Biography

Oleg Troshichev graduated from Leningrad University, USSR. He has completed his PhD in physics at the Siberian Institute of Earth Magnetism, Ionosphere, and Radiowave Propagation (SibIZMIR, Irkutsk, 1969). He takes charge of Department of Geophysics in AARI from 1985. The main subject of his investigations is physics of the Earth’s magnetosphere and solar-terrestrial relations. Prof. Oleg Troshichev is author of the polar cap magnetic activity (PC) index that has been endorsed by the IAGA (2013) as a proxy of the solar wind energy that entered into the magnetosphere. He has published more than 250 papers in reputed journals.

Abstract

Abstract : РС index as a ground-based proxy of the solar wind energy incoming into the magnetoshere: means for space weather monitoring