Polar Cap Boundary Phenomena

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Recent Work on the Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability at the Dayside Magnetopause and Boundary Layer....Pages 1-14
Magnetopause Motions in a Newton-Busemann Approach....Pages 15-26
Comparison of Gasdynamics and MHD Predictions for Magnetosheath Flow....Pages 27-40
Time—Varying Reconnection....Pages 41-50
An Empirical Model of the Magnetopause for Broad Ranges of Solar Wind Pressure and B Z IMF....Pages 51-61
Solar Wind He 2+ and H + Distributions in the Cusp for Southward IMF....Pages 63-72
Identifying the Open-Closed Field Line Boundary....Pages 73-90
Open and Closed Low Latitude Boundary Layer....Pages 91-101
The Dynamic Magnetosphere....Pages 103-114
Ionospheric Signatures of Magnetopause Processes....Pages 115-125
Excitation of Flow in the Earth’s Magnetosphere-Ionosphere System: Observations by Incoherent-Scatter Radar....Pages 127-140
Large-Scale Electric Fields in the Dayside Magnetosphere....Pages 141-156
Polar Observations of Cusp Electrodynamics: Evolution from 2- to 4-Cell Convection Patterns....Pages 157-172
Relationship between Large-, Meso-, and Small-Scale Field-Aligned Currents and their Current Carriers....Pages 173-188
The Dayside Aurora and its Regulation by the Interplanetary Magnetic Field....Pages 189-208
Auroral and Geomagnetic Signatures of Flux Transfer Events and Associated Current Systems for Positive and Negative IMF B Y ....Pages 209-218
Coherent-Scatter Radar Studies of the Dayside Cusp....Pages 219-232
Ionospheric Radiowave Absorption Processes in the Dayside Polar Cap Boundary Regions....Pages 233-254
Response of the Polar Cap Ionosphere to Changes in (Solar Wind) IMF....Pages 255-270
Polar Cap Phenomena and their Relation to Boundary Layers and the IMF....Pages 271-280
Polar Patches - Outstanding Issues....Pages 281-288
Conjugate Features of Auroras Observed by TV Cameras and Imaging Riometers at Auroral Zone and Polar Cap Conjugate-Pair Stations....Pages 289-300
HF Radars as a Tool for Conjugate Studies of Magnetospheric Phenomena....Pages 301-310
Conjugate Ground Observations and Possible Source Regions of Two Types of PC 1–2 Pulsations at Very High Latitudes....Pages 311-326
Studies of Geomagnetic Conjugacy at Very High Latitudes....Pages 327-342
A Model for The High Latitude Isotropic Boundary....Pages 343-354
Particle Boundaries During a Solar Electron Event....Pages 355-367
Structure Analysis of Geosynchronous Substorm Oscillations....Pages 369-380
Substorms and the Inner Magnetosphere: Onset and Initial Expansion....Pages 381-392
Observations of Tailward Streaming Ions in the Near-Earth Tail During a Magnetospheric Substorm....Pages 393-402
Space Weather - The Practice of Space Physics....Pages 403-414
A Summary of the NATO ASI on Polar Cap Boundary Phenomena....Pages 415-432