Overview

The past forty years of space research have seen a substantial improvement in our understanding of the Earth’s magnetosphere and its coupling with the solar wind and interplanetary magnetic ?eld (IMF). The magnetospheric str- ture has been mapped and major processes determining this structure have been de?ned. However, the picture obtained is too often static. We know how the magnetosphere forms via the interaction of the solar wind and IMF with the Earth’s magnetic ?eld. We can describe the steady state for various upstream conditions but do not really understand the dynamic processes leading from one state to another. The main dif?culty is that the magnetosphere is a comp- cated system with many time constants ranging from fractions of a second to days and the system rarely attains a steady state. Two decades ago, it became clear that further progress would require multi-point measurements. Since then, two multi-spacecraft missions have been launched — INTERBALL in 1995/96 and CLUSTER II in 2000. The objectives of these missions d- fered but were complementary: While CLUSTER is adapted to meso-scale processes, INTERBALL observed larger spatial and temporal scales. However, the number of papers taking advantage of both missions simul- neously is rather small.

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Author:   Jean-Andre Sauvaud ,  Zdenek Nemecek
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   2004 ed.
Volume:   178
Weight:   0.564kg
ISBN:  

9781402027673

ISBN 10:   1402027672
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   12 October 2004
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Propagation and Evolution of ICMES in the Solar Wind.- The Solar Wind Interaction with Planetary Magnetospheres.- An Overview of New Concepts Deduced from Interball Solar Wind Investigations.- Interplanetary Discontinuities and Shocks in the Earth’s Magnetosheath.- Magnetosheath Investigations: Interball Contribution to the Topic.- Pressure Pulses and Cavity Mode Resonances.- Two-Point Interball Observations of the LLBL.- Cluster: New Measurements of Plasma Structures in 3D.- CUSP Properties for By Domainant IMF.- CEP as a Source of Upstream Energetic Ions.- Magnetic Cloud and Magnetosphere—Ionosphere Response to the 6 November 1997 CME.- Multipoint Observations of Transient Event Motion Through the Ionosphere and Magnetosphere.- A Model for the MHD Turbulence in the Earth’s Plasma Sheet: Building Computer Simulations.- Cold Ionospheric Ions in the External Dayside Magnetosphere.- Role of Electrostatic Effects in Thin Current Sheets.- Bursty Bulk Flows and Their Ionospheric Footprints.- Multi-Point Cluster Observations of VLF Risers, Fallers and Hooks at and Near the Plasmapause.

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