Education
1962: BS, Geophysics;
1969: PhD in Physics, Siberian Institute of Earth Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radiowave Propagation, (SibIZMIR), Irkutsk;
1982: Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, (AARI), Leningrad;
1994: Professor, AARI, St Petersburg.
Professional activity
2018-present: Chief Scientist, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI), Saint-Petersburg;
1985-2017: Head of Department of Geophysics, AARI;
1978-1985: Senior Researcher, Head of Laboratory, AARI, Leningrad;
1969-1978: Senior Researcher, Institute of Physics, Leningrad University, Leningrad;
1961-1969: Assistant, Junior Researcher, Senior Researcher, SibIZMIR, Irkutsk; Russia
Field experience:
- Participant of several Arctic and 2 seasonal Antarctic expeditions;
1988 - Member of the 1st Soviet Inspection Group, which verified the implementation of the Antarctic Treaty at Antarctic stations.
Research field
magnetospheres, geomagnetic pulsations, polar caps, interplanetary magnetic fields, field-aligned currents, atmospheric electricity, electric field.
Creative works
- Studying the nature of high-latitude magnetic disturbances and founding the close relation between the polar cap magnetic activity and interplanetary electric field affecting the magnetosphere. Invention and putting into practice the polar cap magnetic activity PC index, as indicator of energy that enters into the magnetosphere during solar wind-magnetosphere coupling. Elaboration of methods for monitoring and nowcasting the space weather and magnetosphere state by means of the ground-based PC index.
- Founding the close relationships between the prolonged impact of intense solar wind on magnetosphere and such abnormal atmospheric processes, occurring in the winter Antarctica, as acceleration of the air masses descending into the lower atmosphere from the troposphere and formation of cloudiness above the Antarctic Ridge. These processes led to the sudden warming in the surface atmosphere and sharp increase of the atmospheric pressure in the near-pole region, the latter gives rise to the katabatic wind strengthening above the entire Antarctica and decay the circumpolar vortex about the periphery of the Antarctic continent. As result, the Antarctic cold air masses invade to the Southern ocean and the regular relationships between the sea level pressure fluctuations in the Southeast Pacific high and the North Australian-Indonesian low collapses with providing conditions for the El-Ni?o formation.
- Concept of the gravitation field variations as one of the important factors controlling the rhythmic of the biochemical processes.
Scientific organisations and expertise:
1988- present: Member of the American Geophysical Union;
1988-present: Member of the European Geophysical Union.
1990-present. National representative - Division “Solar-Terrestrial Antarctic Researches” at the Science Committee on Antarctic Researches (SCAR),
Awards:
1995 – Order of Honour, Russian Federation;
2016– Chizhevsky Medal, Federation of Cosmonautics.
Publications:
More than 250 publications in scientific journals;
Coauthors of 7 monographs dedicated to physics of the magnetospheric disturbances;
Selected publications:
Monographs
- Troshichev O.A.and A.S.Yanzhura (2012) Space weather monitoring by ground-based means: PC-index. Springer/Praxis, 288p., Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Troshichev O.A. (2017) Polar cap magnetic activity (PC index) and space weather monitoring, Editions Universitaires Europeennes, 140p., ISBN:978-3-8381-8012-0.
Research papers
- Troshichev O., D. Sormakov, A. Janzhura (2012) Sawtooth substorms generated under conditions of the steadily high solar wind energy input into the magnetosphere: Relationship between PC, AL and ASYM indices. Adv. Space Res. 49: 872–882, doi:10.1016/j.asr.2011.12.011
- Troshichev O.A., A.S. Janzhura (2012) Physical implications of discrepancy between summer and winter PC indices observed in the course of magnetospheric substorms, Adv. Space Res. 50, 77–84, doi:10.1016/j.asr.2012.03.017
- Frank-Kamenetsky A., O. Troshichev (2012) A relationship between the auroral absorption and the magnetic activity in the polar cap J Atmos Solar-Terr Phys, 74, 40–45 doi:10.1016/j.jastp.2011.11.007
- Troshichev O.A., Vovk V.Y., Egorova L.V. (2012) Solar wind influence on atmospheric processes in winter Antarctica. In: Solar Wind: Emission, Technologies and Impacts, Ñ. 73-105.
- Burns G.B., Tinsley B.A., Frank-Kamenetsky A.V., Troshichev O.A., French W.J.R., Klekochiuk A.R. (2012) Monthly diurnal global atmospheric circuit estimates derived from Vostok electric field measurements adjusted for local meteorological and solar wind influences. J. Atmos. Sci., 69 (6): 2061-2082.
- Shapovalov S.N., O.A.Troshichev, V.I.Povazhny, and I.V.Moskvin (2013) Studies of Pulsed Signals in High-Precision Experiments (Antarctica). Progress in Physics, 3, 147
- Khan P.A., S.C. Tripathi, O.A.Troshichev, M.A.Waheed, A.M. Aslam, A.K. Gwal (2014) Solar transients disturbing the terrestrial magnetic environment at higher latitudes, Astrophys Space Sci., 349 (2): 647-656, DOI 10.1007/s10509-013-1661-5
- Weygand J.M., E. Zesta and O. Troshichev (2014) Auroral electrojet indices in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres: A statistical comparison, J. Geophys. Res. Space Phys., 119, 4819–4840, doi:10.1002/2013JA019377
- Troshichev O.A., N. A. Podorozhkina, D.A.Sormakov, and A. S. Janzhura (2014) PC index as a proxy of the solar wind energy that entered into the magnetosphere: 1. Development of magnetic substorms, J. Geophys. Res., 119, doi:10.1002/2014JA019940.
- Troshichev O.A. and D. A. Sormakov (2015) PC index as a proxy of the solar wind energy that entered into the magnetosphere: 2. Relation to the interplanetary electric field EKL before substorm onset, Earth, Planets and Space, 67, 170, doi:10.1186/s40623-015-0338-4.
- Troshichev O.A., D.A.Sormakov, and R.Behlke (2018) Relationship between PC index and magnetospheric field-aligned currents measured by Swarm satellites, J Atmos Solar-Terr Phys., 80, 37-47.
- Troshichev O.A. and D. A. Sormakov (2018) PC index as a proxy of the solar wind energy that entered into the magnetosphere: 3. Development of magnetic storms, J Atmos Solar-Terr Phys., 80, DOI 10.1016/j.jastp.201710.012.
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