High-Latitude Space Plasma Physics

Conference · Sat Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1983

OSTI ID:6590076

Hultqvist, B; Hagfors, T

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Nobel Symposium No. 54 on High Latitude Magnetospheric/Ionospheric Plasma Physics. The main purpose of the symposium was to prepare for the European research effort in space plasma physics in the mid-1980's, in which two major constituents are the European Incoherent Scatter Association (EISCAT) facilities and the Swedish satellite Viking. The physics of the high-latitude ionosphere and how this part of near space is affected by the properties of the solar wind and the interplanetary magnetic field are explored. A detailed discussion is provided on high-latitude magnetospheric physics at altitudes of 1-2 earth radii, the main focus of the Viking project. Specific topics considered include the role of the auroral ionosphere in magnetospheric substorms, the low altitude cleft, ionospheric modification and stimulated emissions, plasma physics on auroral field lines, solar wind-magnetosphere energy coupling, cold plasma distribution above a few thousand kilometers at high latitudes, hot electrons in and above the auroral ionosphere, the correlation of auroral kilometric radiation with visual auroras and with Birkeland currents, electrostatic waves in the topside ionosphere, solitary waves and double layers, and an Alfven wave model of auroral arcs.

• OSTI ID: 6590076
• Report Number(s): CONF-8203143-
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
ALFVEN WAVES
ALTITUDE
AURORAL ZONES
COLD PLASMA
CURRENTS
DOCUMENT TYPES
EARTH ATMOSPHERE
ELECTRIC CURRENTS
ELECTROSTATICS
GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATIONS
HYDROMAGNETIC WAVES
INTERPLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELDS
IONOSPHERE
LATITUDE EFFECT
LAYERS
MAGNETIC FIELDS
MAGNETIC STORMS
MAGNETOSPHERE
PLANETARY IONOSPHERES
PLASMA
PROCEEDINGS
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
SATELLITES
SOLAR ACTIVITY
SOLAR WIND
VARIATIONS
WAVE PROPAGATION