Multiscale Processes in the Earth's Magnetosphere: From Interball to Cluster : Proceedings of the NATO ARW on Multiscale Processes in the Earth's Magnetosphere: From Interball to Cluster, Prague, Czech Republic from 9 to 12 September 2003 - edizione con copertina flessibile

The book is devoted to the achievements of two complementary multispacecraft missions - INTERBALL and CLUSTER II. The advantages of these powerful instruments for magnetospheric investigations are clearly shown together with problems that were or should be overcome in the mission management and data processing and interpretation. The main goal of both missions is the investigation of coupling among different magnetospheric regions and, consequently, the core of the book deals with this topic. Nevertheless, various coupling processes are influenced by upstream conditions or triggered by solar wind or interplanetary magnetic field disturbances. The book also stresses the importance of the solar wind input on magnetospheric processes. The Editors of the book hope that it will be useful for scientists involved in Solar- Terrestrial relations or Space Weather programs as well as for students of space or plasma physics. The book surveys present knowledge and puts it into context of the latest results of aforementioned missions. Since the book treats not only achievements but the problems of multispacecraft observations as well, it can serve as a tool for the planning of further missions. TOC:Contents.- Dedication.- Contributing Authors.- Preface.- Propagation and Evolution of ICMEs in the Solar Wind.- The Solar Wind Interaction with Planetary Magnetospheres.- An Overview of New Concepts Deduced from INTERBALL Solar Wind Investigations.- Interplanetary Discontinuities and Shocks in the Earth's Magnetosheath.- Magnetosheath Investigations: INTERBALL Contribution to the Topic.- Pressure Pulses and Cavity Mode Resonances.- Two-Point INTERBALL Observations of the LLBL.- CLUSTER: New Measurements of Plasma Structures in 3D.- Cusp Properties for By Dominant IMF.- CEP as a Source of Upstream Energetic Ions; Magnetic Cloud and Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Response to the 6 November 1997 CME.- Multipoint Observations of Transient Event Motion Through the Ionosphere and Magnetosphere.- A Model for the MHD Turbulence in the Earth'S Plasma Sheet: Building Computer Simulations.- Cold Ionospheric lons in the External Dayside Magnetosphere.- Role of Electrostatic Effects in Thin Current Sheets.- Bursty Bulk Flows and Their Ionospheric Footprints.- Multi-point CLUSTER Observations of VLF Risers, Fallers and Hooks at and Near the Plasmapause.