Screen LibraryMagnetic reconnection in space and laboratory plasmas
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| Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Geophysical monograph ;
30 |
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| Online Access: |
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1029/GM030 |
| Item Description: | Papers presented at a Chapman Conference on Magnetic Reconnection, held at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Oct. 3-7, 1983. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (x, 386 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9781118664223 (electronic bk.) 1118664221 (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | QC809 |
| CLC: | O53-53 |
| Contents: |
Magnetic field reconnection / Spontaneous reconnection / Fast spontaneous reconnection by the resistively coupled radiative instability / Steady state aspects of magnetic field line merging / Magentic reconnection and magnetic activity / The electronmagnetic field for an open magnetosphere / Quasilinear evolution of tearing modes during magnetic reconnection / Global single ion effects within the earth's plasma sheet / Magnetic reconnection and anomalous transport processes (A) / Comparison of an analytical approximation for particle motion in a current sheet with precise numerical calculations (A) / Magnetic reconnection at the sun / Magnetic reconnection in comets / Reconnection in the jovian magnetosphere (A) / Fine-scale structure of the jovian magnetotail current sheet (A) / Magnetic field reconnection at the magnetopause : an overview / Evidence of magnetic merging from low-altitude spacecraft and ground-based experiments / Plasma and particle observations at the magnetopause : implications for reconnection / Reconnection at the earth's magnetopause : magnetic field observations and flux transfer events / Recent investigations of flux transfer events observed at the dayside magnetopause / A dual-satellite study of the spatial properties of FTEs / The relation of flux transfer events to magnetic reconnection (A) / Flux transfer events and interplanetary magnetic field conditions (A) / Survey of ion distributions in flux transfer events (A) / Patterns of magnetic field merging sites on the magnetopause (A) / ISEE-3 plasma measurements in the lobes of the distant geomagnetic tail : inferences concerning reconnection at the dayside magnetopause (A) / Reconnection in earth's magnetotail : an overview / Magnetotail energy storage and the variability of the magnetotail current sheet / Plasma sheet behavior during substorms / Streaming energetic electrons in reconnection events / Particle and field signatures of substorms in the near magnetotail / Implications of the 1100 UT March 22, 1979, CDAW 6 substorm event for the role of magnetic reconnection in the geomagnetic tail / Substorm electric fields in the earth's magnetotail / Energetic ions and electrons and their acceleration processes in the magnetotail / The distant geomagnetic tail in theory and observation / ISEE 3 magnetic field observations in the magnetotail : implications for reconnection / Boundary layers of the earth's outer magnetosphere / >35 keV ion observations from ISEE-3 in the deep tail (A) / Three-dimensional computer modeling of dynamic reconnection in the magnetotail : plasmoid signatures in the near and distant tail / Externally driven magnetic reconnection / Computer modeling of fast collisionless reconnection / The nonlinear tearing mode / On the cause of x-line formation in the near-earth plasma sheet : results of adiabatic convection of plasma-sheet plasma / Numerical simulation of the dayside reconnection (A) / Comments on simulation of anomalous resistivity (A) / Reconnection during the formation of field reversed configurations / Driven magnetic reconnection during the formation of a two-cell field-reversed configuration / Reconnection in spheromak formation and sustainment / The role of magnetic reconnection phenomena in the reversed-field pinch / Reconnection in Tokamaks / A plasmoid release mechanism that could explain the substorm's impulsive earthward diversion of cross-tail current / Laboratory experiments on current sheet disruptions, double layers, turbulence and reconnection (A) / Magnetic reconnection in doublets (A) / Some comments on solar reconnect |