Protoplanetary disks are believed to accrete onto their central T Tauri star
because of magnetic stresses. Recently published shearing box simulations
indicate that Ohmic resistivity, ambipolar diffusion and the Hall effect all
play important roles in disk evolution. In the presence of a vertical magnetic
field, the disk remains laminar between 1-5au, and a magnetocentrifugal disk
wind forms that provides an important mechanism for removing angular momentum.
Questions remain, however, about the establishment of a true physical wind
solution in the shearing box simulations because of the symmetries inherent in
the local approximation. We present global MHD simulations of protoplanetary
disks that include Ohmic resistivity and ambipolar diffusion, where the
time-dependent gas-phase electron and ion fractions are computed under FUV and
X-ray ionization with a simplified recombination chemistry. Our results show
that the disk remains laminar, and that a physical wind solution arises
naturally in global disk models. The wind is sufficiently efficient to explain
the observed accretion rates. Furthermore, the ionization fraction at
intermediate disk heights is large enough for magneto-rotational channel modes
to grow and subsequently develop into belts of horizontal field. Depending on
the ionization fraction, these can remain quasi-global, or break-up into
discrete islands of coherent field polarity. The disk models we present here
show a dramatic departure from our earlier models including Ohmic resistivity
only. It will be important to examine how the Hall effect modifies the
evolution, and to explore the influence this has on the observational
appearance of such systems, and on planet formation and migration.Comment: 18 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in Ap