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Earth's magnetosphere - Global problems in magnetospheric plasma physicsMagnetospheric physics is presently in a transition from the exploratory stage to one in which satellite missions and ground-based observations are planned with the specific object of achieving a global understanding and self-consistent quantitative description of the cause-and-effect relationship among the principal dynamic processes involved. Measurements turn to lower and lower energies and to higher ion mass species, in order to encompass the entire particle population, and to a broader range of the frequency spectrum of magnetic and electric field variations. In the present paper, the current status of our knowledge on magnetospheric plasma physics is reviewed, with particular reference of such fundamental advances as the discovery of layers of streaming plasma in the magnetosphere beneath its boundary surface, the identification of the terrestrial magnetosphere as a celestial source of kilometric radiation and relativistic particles, the identification of parallel electric field regions within the magnetosphere and their role in auroral particle acceleration, and the discovery of large fluxes of energetic heavy ions trapped in the magnetosphere.
Document ID
19790069646
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Other - Collected Works
Authors
Roederer, J. G.
(Alaska, University Fairbanks, Alaska, United States)
Date Acquired
August 9, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1979
Subject Category
Geophysics
Accession Number
79A53659
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
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