Earth's Plasmasphere

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Content: Cover Half-title Title Copyright Contents Preface Foreword Introduction Chapter 1 Discovery of the plasmasphere and initial studies of its properties 1.1 Introduction 1.2 First plasmaspheric research in the USSR 1.3 The discovery of the 'knee' effect from whistlers Chapter 2 Electromagnetic sounding of the plasmasphere 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Initial results 2.3 Plasmasphere dynamics 2.4 Coupling of the plasmapause and plasmasphere regions to the ionosphere 2.5 Other aspects of plasmasphere structure and dynamics 2.6 Plasma wave observations and the plasmasphere. Chapter 3 Plasmasphere measurements from spacecraft3.1 Introduction 3.2 Experimental results from the decade 1960-70 3.3 Experiments and results from the decade 1970-80 3.4 Plasmaspheric measurements during the decade 1980-90 3.5 The latest results Chapter 4 A global description of the plasmasphere 4.1 Introduction 4.2 The ionosphere as a source and sink for plasmaspheric particles 4.3 Thermal structure of the plasmasphere 4.4 Pitch angle distributions 4.5 Ion composition 4.6 Plasma density distribution 4.7 The shape of the equatorial plasmapause 4.8 The plasmapause region. 4.9 Plasma density irregularities outside and inside the plasmasphere4.10 Magnetic and electric field distributions 4.11 Concluding remarks Chapter 5 Theoretical aspects related to the plasmasphere 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Field-aligned and equatorial plasma density distributions 5.3 Equatorial plasma distribution 5.4 Plasma convection and interchange motion 5.5 Theories for the formation of the plasmapause Epilogue References Index.