Convection and substorms : paradigms of magnetospheric phenomenology
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Convection and substorms : paradigms of magnetospheric phenomenology
(International series on astronomy and astrophysics, 2)
Oxford University Press, 1995
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Institute for Space–Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University宇宙地球研1
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The magnetosphere is the region in which the solar wind interacts with the Earth's magnetic field, the zone which screens the Earth from most of the harmful cosmic rays which daily bombard it. The Aurora Borealis, or Norhun lights, other such phenourena result from the interaction of particles in the solar wind and the magnetosphere.
Planetary physicists, geophysicists, plasma astrophysicists, and scientists involved with astronautics all have a primary interest in the configuration and dynamics of the magnetosphere, and much research is devoted to convection (the circulation of solarwind plastma in the magnetiosphere) and substorms, which are linked to the aurorae and thought to stimulate convection. In this book, one of the leading scientists in the field presents a synthesis of current knowledge on convection and
substorms and proposes that the
Planetary physicists, geophysicists, plasma astrophysicists, and scientists involved with astronautics all have a primary interest in the configuration and dynamics of the magnetosphere, and much research is devoted to convection (the circulation of solarwind plastma in the magnetiosphere) and substorms, which are linked to the aurorae and thought to stimulate convection. In this book, one of the leading scientists in the field presents a synthesis of current knowledge on convection and
substorms and proposes that the steady reconnection model be replaced by a model of multiple tail reconnection events, in which many mutually interdependent reconnections occur.
Table of Contents
1: Introduction
2: The Teardrop Magnetosphere
3: The Bell-Like Magnetosphere
4: The Viscous Magnetosphere
5: The Reconnecting Magnetosphere
6: Correlation of Geomagnetic Activity with the Solar Wind
7: The Reconnection System
8: Bursty Magnetopause Reconnection and its Consequences
9: Bimodal Plasma Flow Sheet Flow
10: Convection for Northward Interplanetary Field
11: The Nightside Auroral Oval
12: The Auroral Substorm
13: The Geosynchronous and Auroral Substorms
14: Coordination of the Geosynchronous and Auroral Substorms
15: Triggered Substorms
16: On the Relation Between Convection and Substorms
17: Epilogue
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