The Earth's Plasmasphere
A CLUSTER and IMAGE Perspective
Editors: Darrouzet, Fabien, de Keyser, Johan, Pierrard, Viviane (Eds.)
Free Preview- Compiles insights gained from the most recent space missions that study the plasmasphere
- First book dedicated to the plasmasphere in a decade
- Written by an international group of scientists representative of the world-wide community
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The Earth's Plasmasphere reviews the state of the art in plasmaspheric science based on the modern observations provded by ESA's CLUSTER and NASA's IMAGE spacecraft. The plasmasphere, discovered at the beginning of the space age, has remained largely unexplored territory. Now, with innovative observational techniques, new light is being shed on this key region of the magnetosphere. This book sketches the emerging overall picture of a highly structured plasma, sculpted by the ever-changing electromagnetic fields that result from the interaction of the solar wind with the magnetosphere.
The Earth's Plasmasphere, written by an international group of scientists representative of the world-wide community, is aimed at researchers and graduate students with an interest in magnetospheric physics, space plasma physics and geophysics.
- Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Preface
Pages 1-2
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Foreword
Pages 3-5
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CLUSTER and IMAGE: New Ways to Study the Earth’s Plasmasphere
Pages 7-53
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Plasmaspheric Density Structures and Dynamics: Properties Observed by the CLUSTER and IMAGE Missions
Pages 55-106
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Electric Fields and Magnetic Fields in the Plasmasphere: A Perspective from CLUSTER and IMAGE
Pages 107-135
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Earth's Plasmasphere
- Book Subtitle
- A CLUSTER and IMAGE Perspective
- Editors
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- Fabien Darrouzet
- Johan de Keyser
- Viviane Pierrard
- Copyright
- 2009
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag New York
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-4419-1323-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4419-1323-4
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-4419-1322-7
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-4939-5100-0
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- IV, 296
- Additional Information
- Reprinted from Space Science Reviews journal, Vol. 145/1-2, 2009
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