High-Latitude Space Plasma Physics

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hultgvist, Bengt
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 1983, 1983
Edition:1st ed. 1983
Series:Nobel Foundation Symposia
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Interpretation of Observed Relations between Solar Wind Characteristics and Effects at Ionospheric Altitudes
  • High Latitude Magnetospheric Physics above a few Thousand Kilometers
  • Cold Plasma Distribution above a few Thousand Kilometers at High Latitudes
  • The Hot Ion Composition, Energy, and Pitch Angle Characteristics above the Auroral Zone Ionosphere
  • The Hot Electrons in and above the Auroral Ionosphere: Observations and Physical Implications
  • On the Composition of the Ring Current and the Plasmasheet and what it tells about the Sources of these Hot Plasma Populations
  • Birkeland Currents: Present Understanding and some Remaining Questions
  • High Latitude Electromagnetic Plasma Wave Emission
  • Correlation of Auroral Kilometric Radiation with Visual Auroras and with Birkeland Currents
  • A Review of Electrostatic Waves in the Topside Ionosphere
  • Effects of Heavy Ions on Microscopic Plasma Physics in the Magnetosphere
  • Anomalous Resistivity on Auroral Field Lines and its Role in Auroral Particle Acceleration
  • Solitary Waves and Double Layers as the Source of Parallel Electric Fields in the Auroral Acceleration Region
  • Numerical Simulations of Plasma Double Layers
  • Causes of Particle Precipitation along Auroral Field Lines
  • An Alfvén Wave Model of Auroral Arcs
  • Participants
  • The EISCAT Facility
  • The Viking Satellite
  • Physics of the High Latitude Ionosphere
  • The Role of the Auroral Ionosphere in Magnetospheric Substorms
  • Characteristics of the Polar Cap at Ionospheric Levels and Present Understanding of the Physical Processes that give Rise to these Characteristics
  • The Low Altitude Cleft: Plasma Entry and Magnetospheric Topology
  • Incoherent-Scatter Radar Measurements of Electric Field and Plasma in the Auroral Ionosphere
  • Irregularities and Instabilities in the Auroral F-Region
  • Significance of Scatter Radar Studies of E and F Region Irregularities at High Latitudes
  • Ionospheric Modification and Stimulated Emissions
  • Plasma Physics on Auroral Field Lines: The Formation of Ion Conic Distributions
  • Solar Wind Influence on the High Latitude Ionosphere
  • Dependence of the High-Latitude Ionospheric Fields and Plasma Characteristics on the Properties of the Interplanetary Medium
  • Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Energy Coupling