Auroral physics is a subject that has seen considerable change and development over the past twenty years, particularly because of its importance to space research and the exploration of the near earth environment. In July 1988, a conference held at St. Johns College, Cambridge, celebrated the centenary of Sydney Chapman, the founder of the subject in its modern form, and brought together an international group of experts in the field to discuss important developments and the likely directions of future research. Auroral Physics gives a comprehensive overview of the subject, and puts forward some important new ideas.
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"This multi-author compendium, better than most of its breed, is well arranged by its editors, and the numerous references made to its contents in recent literature attest to its usefulness to specialists. Its depiction of the struggle to develop a comprehensive understanding of the substorm also is of interest to plasma physicists at large." T. Neil Davis, Science
"...an auroral scientist should find the collection a convenient source of information on the various aspects of the field." D. R. Bates, Planetary and Space Science
"...very informative and useful for students and researchers interested not only in auroral physics, but in magnetosphere/ionosphere/atmosphere processes also." Yn. N. Korenkov, PAGEOPH
"...an auroral scientist should find the collection a convenient source of information on the various aspects of the field." D. R. Bates, Planetary and Space Science
"...very informative and useful for students and researchers interested not only in auroral physics, but in magnetosphere/ionosphere/atmosphere processes also." Yn. N. Korenkov, PAGEOPH
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This volume, which was first published in 1991, presents a comprehensive review of all aspects of the physics of the aurorae australis and borealis. The book is aimed primarily at students and researchers in auroral physics, but will also be of interest to magnetospheric, ionospheric and atomospheric physicists.
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The great progress in auroral physics during the last few decades has created the awareness that most of what we call auroral phenomena are various manifestations of dissipation processes associated with the discharge of electrical power generated by the solar-wind/magnetosphere interaction. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
substorm expansive phase, diffuse auroral zone, ward electrojet, auroral bulge, dusk auroral oval, neutral wind vectors, pulsating aurora, discrete auroral forms, auroral ion acceleration, expansive phase onset, suprathermal bursts, poleward leap, discrete auroras, active auroral forms, electron number flux, most poleward arc, nightside oval, polar magnetic substorms, proton drift echoes, substorm onset region, magnetotail energy, central plasma sheet, equatorward border, poleward border, discrete auroral arcs Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Space Sci, Dynamics Explorer, American Geophysical Union, Valiance Jones, Geophysical Monograph, Space Set, New York, Space Res, Earth's Magnetotail, Vallance Jones, Common Programme, Eos Trans, Millstone Hill, Reidel Pub, Westward Travelling Surge, Department of Physics, Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Coupling, Space Phys, The Development of the Auroral Substorm, Courtesy Canadian Journal of Physics, University of Iowa, Los Alamos, Murphree-The Quiet-Time Aurora, Ness York, Physics of Auroral Arc Formation New!
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The great progress in auroral physics during the last few decades has created the awareness that most of what we call auroral phenomena are various manifestations of dissipation processes associated with the discharge of electrical power generated by the solar-wind/magnetosphere interaction. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
substorm expansive phase, diffuse auroral zone, ward electrojet, auroral bulge, dusk auroral oval, neutral wind vectors, pulsating aurora, discrete auroral forms, auroral ion acceleration, expansive phase onset, suprathermal bursts, poleward leap, discrete auroras, active auroral forms, electron number flux, most poleward arc, nightside oval, polar magnetic substorms, proton drift echoes, substorm onset region, magnetotail energy, central plasma sheet, equatorward border, poleward border, discrete auroral arcs Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Space Sci, Dynamics Explorer, American Geophysical Union, Valiance Jones, Geophysical Monograph, Space Set, New York, Space Res, Earth's Magnetotail, Vallance Jones, Common Programme, Eos Trans, Millstone Hill, Reidel Pub, Westward Travelling Surge, Department of Physics, Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Coupling, Space Phys, The Development of the Auroral Substorm, Courtesy Canadian Journal of Physics, University of Iowa, Los Alamos, Murphree-The Quiet-Time Aurora, Ness York, Physics of Auroral Arc Formation New!
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- Physics of Auroral Arc Formation (Geophysical Monograph) by Syun-Ichi Akasofu on 6 pages
- Modeling Magnetospheric Plasma (Geophysical Monograph) by T. W. Moorehead on 5 pages
- Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling (Physics & Chemistry in Space) by Y. Kamide on page 65, page 270, and page 334
- Polar and Magnetosphere Substorms (Astrophysics and Space Science Library) by Syun-Ichi Akasofu on page 220, page 398, and page 418
- Energetic Ion Composition in the Earth's Magnetosphere (Advances in Earth and Planetary Sciences) by R.G. Johnson on page 142, and page 156
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- The High-Latitude Ionosphere and its Effects on Radio Propagation (Cambridge Atmospheric and Space Science Series) by R. D. Hunsucker on page 335, and page 336
- Space Plasma Simulation (Lecture Notes in Physics) by Jörg Büchner on page 107
- Aurora: The Mysterious Northern Lights by Candace Savage in Back Matter
- Magnetospheric Research with Advanced Techniques, Volume 9 (Cospar) by R.L. Xu on page 58
- Electron Acceleration in the Aurora and Beyond by D Bryant in Back Matter
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