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Record Nr.

UNINA9910156164203321

Autore

Dorman L. I (Lev Isaakovich)

Titolo

Plasmas and energetic processes in the geomagnetosphere . Volume II Plasmas/magnetic and current sheets, reconnections, particle acceleration, and substorms / / Lev I. Dorman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hauppauge, New York : , : Nova Science Publisher's, Incorporated, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

1-5361-0144-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (563 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Collana

Physics Research and Technology

Disciplina

538/.766

Soggetti

Magnetosphere

Geomagnetism

Space plasmas

Particle accelerators

Cosmic rays

Magnetic storms

Solar wind

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Magnetospheric sheets: main properties, structure, expansion, and particle transport -- Turbulence and fluctuations, instabilities, storm time variations, fast flows, temperature anisotropies, and magnetic field structure in magnetospheric sheets -- Magnetospheric sheets: bifurcation and flapping, pressure gradients, influence of solar wind and IMF conditions, ULF, EUV, auroral arc waves, dipolarization and antidipolarization fronts, parallel electric fields, plasmoids and jets -- Main properties, onset and expansion phases of substorms -- Substorms: reconnections, particle acceleration, and statistical studies -- Modeling and simulation of magnetospheric substorms and related phenomena -- Substorms energetics, relation with magnetic storms, pulsations, turbulence, plasma bubbles, substorm index, and jets.