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774129
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b594123
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edited by S.-I. Akasofu.
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Title & Author
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Dynamics of the magnetosphere : : proceedings of the A.G.U. Chapman Conference 'Magnetospheric Substorms and Related Plasma Processes' held at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Los Alamos, N.M., U.S.A., October 9-13, 1978\ edited by S.-I. Akasofu.
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Publication Statement
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Dordrecht, Holland ; Boston : D. Reidel Pub. Co., ©1980.
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Series Statement
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Astrophysics and space science library, v. 78.
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Page. NO
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xi, 658 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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ISBN
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902771052X
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: 9400995199
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: 9400995210
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: 9789027710529
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: 9789400995192
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: 9789400995215
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Contents
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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.- Plasma Flow 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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Subject
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Magnetospheric substorms -- Congresses.
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Subject
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Sous-orages magnétosphériques -- Congrès.
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Subject
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Space plasmas -- Congresses.
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LC Classification
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QC809.M35E358 1980
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American Geophysical Union.
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Syun-Ichi Akasofu
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