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Author:   Syun-Ichi Akasofu
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Kluwer Academic Publishers
Edition:   1980 ed.
Volume:   78
Weight:   1.400kg
ISBN:  

9789027710529

ISBN 10:   902771052
Pages:   657
Publication Date:   31 December 1979
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

I. Interplanetary Magnetic Field and the Magnetosphere.- The Control of the Magnetopause by the Interplanetary Magnetic Field.- Polar Cap Variations and the Interplanetary Magnetic Field.- IMF Changes and Polar-Cap Electric Fields and Currents.- Interplanetary Magnetic Field Changes and the Magnetotail.- Transport Mechanisms at the Magnetopause.- The Configuration of Dayside Merging.- Dayside Aurora, A Signature of the Dayside Cusp and Correlation with Substorm Currents.- II. Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling.- Dynamics of the Magnetospheric Plasma.- Large-Scale Characteristics of Birkeland Currents.- The Auroral Electrojets.- Studies of Currents and Electric Fields in the Auroral Zone Ionosphere using Radar Auroral Backscatter.- Electric Fields and Currents in the Earth’s Magnetosphere.- Magnetic Substorm Characteristics Described by Magnetic Potential Maps for 26–28 March 1976.- III. Plasma Processes in the Magnetosphere.- The Role of Microturbulence on Collisionless Reconnection.- Macroinstabilities of the Magnetotail.- Substorms and Magnetospheric Energy Transfer Processes.- Pulsations at the Substorm Onset.- Physical Processes for the Onset of Magnetospheric Substorms.- IV. Ring Current Formation.- Observations of Plasma Injection.- The Physics of Plasma Injection Events.- Ring Curent Composition and Sources.- Relationship Between Substorms and Storms.- V. Substorm Mechanisms.- What is a Magnetospheric Substorm?.- The Expansive Phase of the Magnetospheric Substorm.- Externally Driven Magnetic Reconnection.- A Dynamical Model for the Onset of Magnetospheric Substorms.- Solar Wind Velocity, Interplanetary Magnetic Field and Ground State of the Magnetosphere.- Generation of Field Aligned Current During Substorm.- VI. Substorm Processes in the Magnetotail.- PlasmaFlow in the Magnetotail and its Implications for Substorm Theories.- Observations on Plasma Sheet Dynamics During Magnetospheric Substorms.- Energetic Particle Bursts in the Earth’s Magnetotail.- Magnetic Variations During Substorms.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.

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