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Magnetospheric Plasma Sources and Losses Final Report of the ISSI Study Project on Source and Loss Processes

The present sixth volume of ISSI Space Sciences Series is the outcome of the most ambitious study project of ISSI hitherto, that on 'Source and Loss Processes of Magnetospheric Plasma'. The goal has been to produce a fully integrated book on the subject, which gives an authoritative overvi...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hultqvist, Bengt (Editor), Øieroset, Marit (Editor), Paschmann, Götz (Editor), Treumann, Rudolf (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1999, 1999
Edition:1st ed. 1999
Series:Space Sciences Series of ISSI
Subjects:
Astronomy / Observations
Astronomy, Observations And Techniques
Astrophysics
Online Access:
Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 5.6 Impulsive Penetration
  • 5.7 The Special Mole of the Cusp
  • 5.8 Summary and Conclusions
  • 5.9 Future Directions
  • 6 Source and loss processes in the magnetotail
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 Magnetotail Overview
  • 6.3 Models
  • 6.4 Observations
  • 6.5 Data-Theory Closure
  • 6.6 Alternate Scenarios
  • 6.7 Summary and Remarks
  • 7 Contribution of different source and loss processes to the magnetospheric plasma content
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 Summary of Source Processes
  • 7.3 Summary of Loss Processes
  • 7.3. Ion Loss Through the Distant Tail
  • 7.4 Balance Between Source and Loss Processes
  • 8 Magnetospheric plasma sources and losses: future directions
  • 8.1Introduction
  • 8.2 Identification of Global Sources
  • 8.3 Search for and Identification of Reconnection Site
  • 8.4 Entry and Transport Processes
  • 8.5 Mixing of the Solar Wind and Ionospheric Sources
  • 8.6 Losses
  • Appendix A/ Simulation models
  • A.1 MHD models
  • A.2 Basics of Large Scale Kinetic (LSK) Models
  • Appendix B/ Diffusive Processes
  • B.1 Basic Concepts
  • B.2 Anomalous Diffusion
  • Appendix C / List of symbols and conventions used
  • Appendix D/ Abbreviations and Acronyms
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Source processes in the high-latitude ionosphere
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Ionospheric Context
  • 2.3 Collisional Bulk Heating
  • 2.4 Transverse Ion Energization
  • 2.5 Parallel Acceleration of Ions and Electrons
  • 2.6 Summary of Ion Outflows
  • 2.7 Conclusions, Controversies and Open Questions
  • 3 Processes leading to plasma losses into the high-latitude atmosphere
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Main loss processes
  • 3.3 Polar Cap-Regions that May be on Open Field Lines
  • 3.4 Precipitation from the Plasma Sheet
  • 3.5 Where we stand today
  • 4 Source and loss processes in the inner magnetosphere
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Physical Processes
  • 4.3 Radiation Belts
  • 4.4 Ring Current
  • 4.5 Cold and Suprathermal Partides In the Inner Magnetosphere
  • 5 Plasma transfer processes at the magnetopause
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Magnetic Reconnection
  • 5.3 Finite Larmor Radius Effecte
  • 5.4 Diffusion
  • 5.5 Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability

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