The Dynamic Magnetosphere

ISBN-13: 9789400705005 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 368 str.

William Liu; Masaki Fujimoto

Opis

Despite the plethora of monographs published in recent years, few cover recent progress in magnetospheric physics in broad areas of research. While a topical focus is important to in-depth views at a problem, a broad overview of our field is also needed. The volume answers to the latter need. With the collection of articles written by leading scientists, the contributions contained in the book describe latest research results in solar wind-magnetosphere interaction, magnetospheric substorms, magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling, transport phenomena in the plasma sheet, wave and particle dynamics in the ring current and radiation belts, and extra-terrestrial magnetospheric systems. In addition to its breadth and timeliness, the book highlights innovative methods and techniques to study the geospace.

Spis treści

Part I   Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction

1. The Magnetopause, its Boundary Layers and Pathways to the Magnetotail

2. Quantifying Energy Transfer at the Magnetopause

3. Long-period ULF Waves Driven by Periodic Solar Wind Disturbances

Part II   Magnetotail Dynamics

4. Magnetotail Dynamics: Survey of Recent Progress

5. Physical Processes for Magnetospheric Substorm Expansion Onsets

6. Cluster Observations of Plasma Bubbles, BBFs and Their Wakes

7. A Statistical Study of Pressure Changes in the near-Earth Magnetotail  Associated With Substorm Expansion Onsets

8. Categorization of the Time Sequence of Events Leading to Substorm Onset Based on THEMIS All-Sky Imager Observations

 

Part III   Inner Magnetospheric Processes

9. Dynamic Inner Magnetosphere: A Tutorial and Recent Advances

10. Self-Consistent Simulations of Plasma Waves and their Effects on Energetic Particles

11. Topology of High-Latitude Magnetospheric Currents

12. Detection of Dynamical Complexity Changes in Dst  Time Series Using Entropy Concepts and Rescaled Range Analysis

 

Part IV   Waves and Turbulence in Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling

 

13. Magnetospheric ULF Waves:  A Review

14. ULF Waves in the Topside Ionosphere: Satellite Observations and Modeling

15. Evidence for a Multi-Scale Aurora

 

Part V   Ionospheric Driver of the Magnetosphere

16. Influences of the Ionosphere, Thermosphere and Magnetosphere on Ion Outflows

17. Heavy Ion Energization, Transport, and Loss in the Earth’s Magnetosphere

18. Data Assimilation Models: A ‘New’ Tool for Ionospheric Science and Applications

 

Part VI   Extraterrestrial Magnetospheres

19. Large-Scale Structure in the Magnetospheres of Jupiter and Saturn

20. Lunar Plasma Environment

Index

O autorze

William Liu, PhD, is a senior member of the technical staff at Texas Instruments, where he has worked since obtaining his PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1991. Dr. Liu has been TI's lead contact in mentoring the development of BSIM4 model equations with UC Berkeley, and has been in charge of the modeling development for LDMOS/DEMOS and RF-CMOS in TI's SPICE Modeling Laboratory. Dr. Liu has authored/coauthored five book chapters, and has written more than fifty journal papers on modeling, device characterization, and fabrication. Dr. Liu has also published two books on III-V device technologies. Dr. Liu holds sixteen U.S. patents and is a senior member of IEEE.

Blurb

Despite the plethora of monographs published in recent years, few cover recent progress in magnetospheric physics in broad areas of research. While a topical focus is important to in-depth views at a problem, a broad overview of our field is also needed. The volume answers to the latter need. With the collection of articles written by leading scientists, the contributions contained in the book describe latest research results in solar wind-magnetosphere interaction, magnetospheric substorms, magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling, transport phenomena in the plasma sheet, wave and particle dynamics in the ring current and radiation belts, and extra-terrestrial magnetospheric systems. In addition to its breadth and timeliness, the book highlights innovative methods and techniques to study the geospace.

Audience:
This book is a handy reference for established scientists and an ideal guide for graduate students in the fields of geophysics, solar-terrestrial and magnetospheric physics.