Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental process in a magnetized plasma at both low and high magnetic Lundquist numbers (the ratio of the resistive diffusion time to the Alfvén wave transit time), which occurs in a wide variety of laboratory and space plasmas, e.g. magnetic fusion experiments, the solar corona and the Earth’s magnetotail. An implicit time advance for the two-fluid magnetic reconn...

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In this article, we propose and analyse Particle-In-Cell (PIC) methods embedding sparse grid reconstructions such as those introduced in Ricketson Cerfon [ Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 59 (2017) 024002] Muralikrishnan et al . J. Comput. X 11 (2021) 100094]. The offer a significant improvement on the statistical error of PIC schemes well reduction complexity problem providing electric field. Mai...

The use of a particle-in-cell (PIC) algorithm with an explicit scheme to model low temperature plasmas is challenging due computational time constrains related resolving both the electron Debye length in space and inverse fraction plasma frequency time. One recent publication [Ricketson Cerfon, Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 59, 024002 (2017)] has demonstrated interest using sparse grid combinati...

Rainfall variability over the Amazon basin has often been linked to variations in Pacific sea surface temperature (SST), and in particular, to the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO). However, only a fraction of Amazon rainfall variability can be explained by ENSO. Building upon the recent work of Zeng (Environ Res Lett 3:014002, 2008), here we provide further evidence for an influence on Amazo...