Frontiers in magnetospheric plasma physics : celebrating 10 years of Geotail operation : proceedings of the 16th COSPAR Colloquium held at the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Kanagawa, Japan, July 24-26, 2002 / edited by M. Hoshino, Y. Omura and L.J. Lanzerotti.
This COSPAR Colloquium Series deals with the main achievements that were accomplished through the collaborative efforts among ISTP participants; the plasma dynamics of magnetic reconnection in a thin plasma sheet, the action of the solar wind on the plasma population in the plasma sheet and around the magnetotail boundary layer, the relationship between the substrom expansion region and the X-line formation in the magnetotail, and the temporal evolution of the dipolarization from from the near-Earth to the distant tail.
Contents
Preface -- Ten Years of Geotail and Its Current Status: A Brief Summary -- CHAPTER 1: Magnetospheric Dynamics -- CHAPTER 2: Current Sheet and Magnetic Reconnection -- CHAPTER 3: Magnetospheric Substorms -- CHAPTER 4: Microscopic Processes in Space Plasmas -- CHAPTER 5: Shocks and Interplanetary Phenomena.
