Research Catalog

Title

Magnetospheric currents / Thomas A. Potemra, editor.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : American Geophysical Union, 1984.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Potemra, Thomas A.
• American Geophysical Union.
• Chapman Conference on Magnetospheric Currents (1983 : Irvington, Va.)

Description

ix, 357 pages : illustrations; 28 cm

Series Statement

Geophysical monograph ; 28

Uniform Title

Geophysical monograph ; 28.

Subject

• Magnetospheric currents > Congresses
• Plasma instabilities > Congresses
• Magnetospheric currents
• Plasma instabilities
• Magnetosphäre
• Elektrischer Strom
• Kongress
• Geofisica
• Space plasmas > Congresses
• Auroras > Congresses
• Courants magnétosphériques > Congrès
• Plasmas (gaz ionisés) > Instabilités > Congrès

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• Selection from papers presented at Chapman Conference on Magnetospheric Current, held at the Tides Inn in Irvington, Va., Apr. 5-8, 1983.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Contents

Kristian Birkeland : the man and the scientist / Alv Egeland -- Sydney Chapman and his early studies of magnetic disturbances / Masahisa Sugiura -- The evolution of arguments regarding the existence of field-aligned currents / A.J. Dessler -- The magnetospheric currents : an introduction / S.-I. Akasofu -- Introduction to the topology of magnetospheric current systems / W.P. Olson -- Fundamentals of current description / Vytenis M. Vasyliunas -- Estimation of electric fields and currents from ground-based magnetometer data / Y. Kamide and A.D. Richmond -- Electric fields and currents associated with active aurora / W. Baumjohann and H.J. Opgenoorth -- Polar cap current systems / E. Friis-Christensen -- Relationships between field-aligned currents, electric fields, and particle precipitation as observed by dynamics explorer-2 / M. Sugiura -- A study of high latitude current systems during quiet geomagnetic conditions using magsat data / J.R. Burrows, T.J. Hughes, and Margaret D. Wilson -- Field-aligned currents during northward IMF / Takesi Iijima / Three-dimensional Birkeland-ionospheric current system, determined from MAGSAT / L.J. Zanetti [and others] -- Variation of the auroral Birkeland current pattern associated with the north-south component of the IMF / P.F. Bythrow, T.A. Potemra, and L.J. Zanetti -- Distribution of aurora and ionospheric currents observed simultaneously on a global scale / J.D. Craven [and others] -- Currents in the earth's magnetotail / L.A. Frank, C.Y. Huang, and T.E. Eastman -- Characteristics of the cross-tail current in the earth's magnetotail / A.T.Y. Lui -- Field-aligned currents near the magnetosphere boundary / Edward W. Hones, Jr. -- Models of auroral-zone conductances / Patricia H. Reiff -- Coordinated ground and satellite observations of conductivities, electric fields, and field-aligned currents / R.M. Robinson -- Magnetospheric dynamo processes / David P. Stern -- Magnetospheric topology of fields and currents / Walter J. Heikkila -- A new theory of sources of Birkeland currents ; Dielectric and permeability effects in collisionless plasmas / K.D. Cole -- Field-aligned current sheets as tangential and rotational discontinuities / G. Atkinson -- Electrodynamics of convection in the inner magnetosphere / R.W. Spiro and R.A. Wolf -- Coupling of Birkeland current rings / G.L. Siscoe and N.U. Crooker -- Region one Birkeland currents connecting to sunward convecting flux tubes / J.L. Karty, R.A. Wolf, and R.W. Spiro -- Corrected geomagnetic coordinates for Epoch 1980 / Georg Gustafsson -- High-latitude field-aligned currents patterns in connection with magnetospheric structure / Y.I. Feldstein [and others] -- Electric fields and currents observed by S3-2 in the vicinity of discrete arcs / William J. Burke -- Association of field-aligned currents with small-scale auroral phenomena / Cynthia Cattell -- Three-dimensional potential structure associated with Birkeland currents / Lars Block -- The role of currents in plasma redistribution / G. Atkinson -- The role of field-aligned current filaments in generating morning sector PI 1 pulsations at sub-auroral latitudes / M.J. Engebretson [and others] -- Rotationally-induced Birkeland current systems / T.W. Hill -- Dynamics of field-aligned current sources at Earth and Jupiter / D.D. Barbosa.

ISBN

• 0875900550
• 9780875900551

LCCN

83021427

OCLC

• ocm10146341
• 10146341
• SCSB-8794939

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library