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High-Latitude Space Plasma Physics

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  • © 1983

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Editors:
  1. Bengt Hultqvist

    1. Kiruna Geophysical Institute, Kiruna, Sweden

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  2. Tor Hagfors

    1. EISCAT Scientific Association, Kiruna, Sweden

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Part of the book series: Nobel Foundation Symposia (NOFS, volume 54)

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Table of contents (27 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. The EISCAT Facility

    1. The EISCAT Facility

      • T. Hagfors
      Pages 1-9

  3. The Viking Satellite

    1. The Viking Satellite

      • Kerstin Fredga
      Pages 11-17

  4. Physics of the High Latitude Ionosphere

    1. The Role of the Auroral Ionosphere in Magnetospheric Substorms

      • R. A. Wolf, R. W. Spiro
      Pages 19-38

    2. Characteristics of the Polar Cap at Ionospheric Levels and Present Understanding of the Physical Processes that give Rise to these Characteristics

      • Asgeir Brekke
      Pages 39-56

    3. The Low Altitude Cleft: Plasma Entry and Magnetospheric Topology

      • J. D. Winningham, R. A. Heelis
      Pages 57-72

    4. Incoherent-Scatter Radar Measurements of Electric Field and Plasma in the Auroral Ionosphere

      • Richard Vondrak
      Pages 73-93

    5. Irregularities and Instabilities in the Auroral F Region

      • James F. Vickrey, Michael C. Kelley
      Pages 95-113

    6. Significance of Scatter Radar Studies of E and F Region Irregularities at High Latitudes

      • R. A. Greenwald
      Pages 115-147

    7. Ionospheric Modification and Stimulated Emissions

      • Jules A. Fejer
      Pages 149-163

    8. Plasma Physics on Auroral Field Lines: The formation of Ion Conic Distributions

      • Maha Ashour-Abdalla, Hideo Okuda
      Pages 165-188
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Kiruna Geophysical Institute, Kiruna, Sweden

    Bengt Hultqvist

  • EISCAT Scientific Association, Kiruna, Sweden

    Tor Hagfors

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: High-Latitude Space Plasma Physics

  • Editors: Bengt Hultqvist, Tor Hagfors

  • Series Title: Nobel Foundation Symposia

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3652-5

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1983

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-3654-9Published: 16 February 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-3652-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 543

  • Number of Illustrations: 93 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques

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