High-Latitude Space Plasma Physics

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
The EISCAT Facility....Pages 1-9
The Viking Satellite....Pages 11-17
The Role of the Auroral Ionosphere in Magnetospheric Substorms....Pages 19-38
Characteristics of the Polar Cap at Ionospheric Levels and Present Understanding of the Physical Processes that give Rise to these Characteristics....Pages 39-56
The Low Altitude Cleft: Plasma Entry and Magnetospheric Topology....Pages 57-72
Incoherent-Scatter Radar Measurements of Electric Field and Plasma in the Auroral Ionosphere....Pages 73-93
Irregularities and Instabilities in the Auroral F Region....Pages 95-113
Significance of Scatter Radar Studies of E and F Region Irregularities at High Latitudes....Pages 115-147
Ionospheric Modification and Stimulated Emissions....Pages 149-163
Plasma Physics on Auroral Field Lines: The formation of Ion Conic Distributions....Pages 165-188
Dependence of the High-Latitude Ionospheric Fields and Plasma Characteristics on the Properties of the Interplanetary Medium....Pages 189-204
Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Energy Coupling....Pages 205-223
Interpretation of Observed Relations between Solar Wind Characteristics and Effects at Ionospheric Altitudes....Pages 225-249
Cold Plasma Distribution Above a Few Thousand Kilometers at High Latitudes....Pages 251-269
The Hot Ion Composition, Energy, and Pitch Angle Characteristics Above the Auroral Zone Ionosphere....Pages 271-294
The Hot Electrons in and Above the Auroral Ionosphere: Observations and Physical Implications....Pages 295-312
On the Composition of the Ring Current and the Plasmasheet and what it tells about the Sources of these Hot Plasmas....Pages 313-333
Birkeland Currents: Present Understanding and Some Remaining Questions....Pages 335-353
High Latitude Electromagnetic Plasma Wave Emissions....Pages 355-375
Correlations of Auroral Kilometric Radiation with Visual Auroras and with Birkeland Currents....Pages 377-398
A Review of Electrostatic Waves in the Topside Ionosphere....Pages 399-413
Effects of Heavy Ions on Microscopic Plasma Physics in the Magnetosphere....Pages 415-436
Anomalous Resistivity on Auroral Field Lines and its Role in Auroral Particle Acceleration....Pages 437-452
Solitary Waves and Double Layers as the Source of Parallel Electric Fields in the Auroral Acceleration Region....Pages 453-468
Numerical Simulations of Plasma Double Layers....Pages 469-492
Causes of Particle Precipitation along Auroral Field Lines....Pages 493-513
An Alfven Wave Model of Auroral Arcs....Pages 515-535
Back Matter....Pages 537-543