Earth's magnetosphere formed by the low-latitude boundary layer
The author argues that, after four decades of debate about the interaction of solar wind with the magnetosphere, it is time to get back to basics. Starting with Newton's law, this book also examines Maxwell's equations and subsidiary equations such as continuity, constitutive relations and...
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Waltham, MA ; Oxford, UK ; Amsterdam, Netherlands
Elsevier
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue
- Historical introduction
- Approximate methods
- Helmholtz's theorem
- Poynting's energy conservation theorem
- Magnetopause
- High altitude cusps
- Low-latitude boundary layer
- Driving the plasma sheet
- Magnetospheric substorms
- Epilogue : What is new in this book.