Abstract In tokamak plasmas, the interaction among micro-turbulence, zonal flows (ZFs) and energetic particles (EPs) can affect turbulence saturation level consequent confinement quality thus, is important for future burning plasmas. this work, EP anisotropy effects on ZF residual are studied by using anisotropic distributions with dependence pitch. Significant long wavelength ZFs have been fou...

Abstract. The Nimbus 7 Limb Infrared Monitor of the Stratosphere (LIMS) instrument operated from 25 October 1978 through 28 May 1979. Its version 6 (V6) profiles were processed and archived in 2002. We present several diagnostic examples quality V6 stratospheric species distributions based on their level 3 zonal Fourier coefficient products. In particular, we show that there are small differenc...