Screen LibraryMagnetospheric currents
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| Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Geophysical monograph ;
28 |
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| Online Access: |
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1029/GM028 |
| Item Description: | "Based on papers presented at the Chapman Conference on 'Magnetospheric Current, ' held at Irvington, Virginia, April 5-8, 1983"--Title page verso. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (ix, 357 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9781118664131 (electronic bk.) 1118664132 (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | QC809 |
| CLC: | P353 |
| Contents: |
Kristian Birkeland : the man and the scientist / Sydney Chapman and his early studies of magnetic disturbances / The evolution of arguments regarding the existence of field-aligned currents / The magnetospheric currents : an introduction / Introduction to the topology of magnetospheric current systems / Fundamentals of current description / Estimation of electric fields and currents from ground-based magnetometer data / Electric fields and currents associated with active aurora / Polar cap current systems / Relationships between field-aligned currents, electric fields, and particle precipitation as observed by dynamics explorer-2 / A study of high latitude current systems during quiet geomagnetic conditions using magsat data / Field-aligned currents during northward IMF / Three-dimensional Birkeland-ionospheric current system, determined from MAGSAT / Variation of the auroral Birkeland current pattern associated with the north-south component of the IMF / Distribution of aurora and ionospheric currents observed simultaneously on a global scale / Currents in the earth's magnetotail / Characteristics of the cross-tail current in the earth's magnetotail / Field-aligned currents near the magnetosphere boundary / Models of auroral-zone conductances / Coordinated ground and satellite observations of conductivities, electric fields, and field-aligned currents / Magnetospheric dynamo processes / Magnetospheric topology of fields and currents / A new theory of sources of Birkeland currents ; Dielectric and permeability effects in collisionless plasmas / Field-aligned current sheets as tangential and rotational discontinuities / Electrodynamics of convection in the inner magnetosphere / Coupling of Birkeland current rings / Region one Birkeland currents connecting to sunward convecting flux tubes / Corrected geomagnetic coordinates for Epoch 1980 / High-latitude field-aligned currents patterns in connection with magnetospheric structure / Electric fields and currents observed by S3-2 in the vicinity of discrete arcs / Association of field-aligned currents with small-scale auroral phenomena / Three-dimensional potential structure associated with Birkeland currents / The role of currents in plasma redistribution / The role of field-aligned current filaments in generating morning sector PI 1 pulsations at sub-auroral latitudes / Rotationally-induced Birkeland current systems / Dynamics of field-aligned current sources at Earth and Jupiter / |