The Earth's Plasmasphere reviews the state of the art in plasmaspheric science based on the modern observations provded by ESA's CLUSTER and NASA's IMAGE spacecraft. The plasmasphere, discovered at the beginning of the space age, has remained largely unexplored territory. Now, with innovative observational techniques, new light is being shed on this key region of the magnetosphere. This book sketches the emerging overall picture of a highly structured plasma, sculpted by the ever-changing electromagnetic fields that result from the interaction of the solar wind with the magnetosphere.
The Earth's Plasmasphere, written by an international group of scientists representative of the world-wide community, is aimed at researchers and graduate students with an interest in magnetospheric physics, space plasma physics and geophysics.
Author(s): James L. Burch, C. Philippe Escoubet (auth.), F. Darrouzet, J. De Keyser, V. Pierrard (eds.)
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 296
Tags: Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences;Geophysics/Geodesy;Atoms and Molecules in Strong Fields, Laser Matter Interaction;Plasma Physics
Front Matter....Pages i-iv
Preface....Pages 1-2
Foreword....Pages 3-5
CLUSTER and IMAGE: New Ways to Study the Earth’s Plasmasphere....Pages 7-53
Plasmaspheric Density Structures and Dynamics: Properties Observed by the CLUSTER and IMAGE Missions....Pages 55-106
Electric Fields and Magnetic Fields in the Plasmasphere: A Perspective from CLUSTER and IMAGE....Pages 107-135
Advances in Plasmaspheric Wave Research with CLUSTER and IMAGE Observations....Pages 137-191
Recent Progress in Physics-Based Models of the Plasmasphere....Pages 193-229
Augmented Empirical Models of Plasmaspheric Density and Electric Field Using IMAGE and CLUSTER Data....Pages 231-261
Back Matter....Pages 263-296
