Interball in the ISTP Program: Studies of the Solar Wind-Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Interaction / Edition 1

by David Gary Sibeck, Karel Kudela

Overview

An up-to-date progress report on the current status of solar-terrestrial relation studies with an emphasis on observations by the Russian Interball spacecraft and the Czech Magion subsatellites. Papers in the volume describe the various spacecraft in the International Solar-Terrestrial Program and the research questions that they are being used to address. The emphasis is on correlative studies employing multiple instruments and multiple spacecraft.
The book begins with a description of each spacecraft active in 1998 and describes the roles they can play in correlative studies. This is followed by an up-to-date status report concerning ongoing studies of the solar wind, foreshock, bow shock, magnetopause, magnetotail, and ionosphere, with an emphasis on the observations made by the four Interball spacecraft.
Readership: Researchers and graduate students of space physics and astrophysics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780792358640
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	08/31/1999
Series:	Nato Science Series C: , #537
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1999
Pages:	294
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.45(h) x 0.30(d)

Table of Contents

Equator-S: Mission and first results.- Multi-point substorm observations of the outer plasma sheet dynamics on November 13, 1996.- The Wind program: 1998-2000.- Modeling of a prebreakup arc and substorm onset by the “minimum-B” model.- Closely-spaced multi-satellite project ROY to study small-scale structures during magnetic field annihilation and strong turbulence in critical magnetospheric regions: Results of Phase A.- Heliospheric energetic particle flux variations.- On the Earth’s bow shock near solar minimum.- Interball and Geotail observations of flux transfer events.- The high-altitude cusp: Interball observations.- NASA’s IMP 8 spacecraft.- Solar wind correlations: Using a solar wind monitor successfully.- The influence of convection on magnetotail variability.- Bow shock position: Observations and models.- The high-and low-latitude boundary layers in the magnetotail.- Magnetospheric response to a hot flow anomaly.- Crossing the heliospheric current sheet.- Cooperative studies between IKI and SwRI for the Interball project.- Study of vortices in the dawn plasma sheet using Interball-1 data.- Plasma and magnetic field variations in the magnetosheath: Interball-1 and ISTP Spacecraft observations.

Editorial Reviews

Contains papers from a September 1998 workshop, reporting on findings from the Interball-Tail and Interball-Auroral spacecraft that provide observations crucial to the success of the International Solar Terrestrial Program (ISTP). Focus is on interpretation of observations and identification of tasks that can be addressed by joint studies using the Interball data sets. Contributions highlight the relationships among solar wind and magnetosheath, magnetospheric, and ionospheric phenomena, and establish connections among phenomena in each of these regions. Lacks a subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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