Physical Signatures of Magnetospheric Boundary Layer Processes (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780792327639)

Preface. Part I: Currents, Electric Fields and Particles. Sources of large-scale Birkeland currents; T.A. Potemra. Solar wind control of high latitude dayside current systems; C.R. Clauer. Thermal ion drifts in the dayside high-latitude ionosphere; R.A. Heelis. Signatures and sources of electric fields and particles at dayside high latitudes; N.C. Maynard, W.J. Burke, W.F. Denig, E.M. Basinska. Viking observations of dayside high-latitude electric fields; L.G. Blomberg. The projection of the magnetospheric boundary layers to mid-altitudes; J. Woch, R. Lundin, T.A. Potemra, M. Shapshak. Classification of large-scale and meso-scale ion dispersion patterns observed by Viking over the cusp-mantle region; M. Yamauchi, R. Lundin. Electrodynamic signatures of the plasma sheet boundary layer in the evening ionosphere; W.J. Burke, J.S. Machuzak, N.C. Maynard, E.M. Basinska, G.M. Erickson, R.A. Hoffman, J.A. Slavin, W.B. Hanson. Progressing dayside polar radio wave absorption events and convection disturbances; P. Staunig, T.J. Rosenberg, C.R. Clauer, E. Friis-Christensen, O. Rasmussen. Part II: Dayside Aurora. Dayside aurora and magnetopause processes; R.W. Smith. Space borne optical remote sensing of midday auroral oval and different participation regions; C-I Meng. Cusp/cleft auroral activity in relation to solar wind dynamic pressure, IMF Bz and By; P.E. Sandholt, C.J. Farrugia, L.F. Burlaga, J.A. Holtet, J. Moen, B. Lybekk, B. Jacobsen, D. Opsvik, A. Egeland, R. Lepping, A.J. Lazarus, T. Hansen, A. Brekke, E. Friis-Christensen. Dayside aurora poleward of the main auroral distribution: Implications for convection and mapping; R.d. Elphinstone, D.J. Hearn, J.S. Murphree. Dayside auroral dynamics during reconfiguration of the auroral oval; J.I. Minow, R.W. Smith, W.F. Denig, P.T. Newell. Poleward-moving auroral forms: What do we really know about them? G.J. Fasel, J.I. Minow, L.C. Lee, R.W. Smith, C.S. Deehr. Part III: Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Coupling. Ionospheric signature of pulsed magnetopause reconnection; M. Lockwood. Magnetosheath fluctuations, ionospheric convection and dayside ionospheric transients; P.T. Newell, D.G. Sibeck. Concerning the location of magnetopause merging; D.G. Sibeck, P.T. Newell. Transient dayside reconnection and its effects on the ionosphere; M.F. Smith. Patchy multiple X-line reconnection and poleward-moving auroral forms; L.C. Lee, G.J. Fasel. Influence of the IMF sector structure on the latitude of the daytime cusp region; A.S. Besprozvannaya, T.I. Shchuka, O.A. Troshichev. Another look at flux transfer events; W.H. Heikkila. Part IV: Waves. MHD theory of magnetic pulsations; A.N. Wright. ULF waves in the cusp and cleft: Signatures of boundary layer processes; W.J. Hughes. Optical evidence that modulated electron precipitation near the magnetospheric boundary drives high latitude Pc 3-4 magnetic pulsations; M.J. Engebretson, J.R. Beck, D.L. Detrick, T.J. Rosenberg, R.L. Rairden, S.B. Mende, R.L. Arnoldy, L.J. Cahill, Jr. The ULF modulation of ELF-VLF emissions close to the magnetospheric boundary; K. Morrison, M.J. Engebretson, J.R. Beck, J.E. Johnson, R.L. Arnoldy, L.J. Cahill, Jr., D.L. Carpenter. Part V: Modelling and Mapping. A quantitative model of magnetosheath plasma in the low latitude boundary layer, cusp, and mantle; T.G. Onsager. Application of the assimilative mapping of ionospheric electrodynamics (AMIE) procedure to cusp

Author: J. a. Holtet
ISBN-10: 0792327632
ISBN-13: 9780792327639
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Language: English
Published: 04/30/1994
Pages: 472
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.84lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.00d