Transport Across the Boundaries of the Magnetosphere

The present volume is the second one in the Space Sciences Series of ISSI (Inter national Space Science Institute) and the October 1997 issue of Space Science Reviews. It contains the proceedings of the first workshop in the ISSI study project on "Source and Loss Processes of Magnetospheric Plasma", which was held at ISSI in Bern on October 1-5, 1996. The participants in the project, the project team, numbered at that time 51, of whom 45 participated in the workshop. The main tasks of the first workshop were to provide a basis for the further work by means of presentation and discussion of those 16 review papers which are pub lished in this volume and to prepare plans for the work of six working groups in the year up to the second workshop in October 1997. The ISSI study project on "Source and Loss Processes of Magnetospheric Plas ma" was selected by ISSI in December 1995 as the first in the solar-terrestrial physics field after consulting a number of groups of senior scientists represent ing the international space physics community at large. The undersigned, Bengt Hultqvist, is the project leader. A Core Group, consisting of two co-chairs for each of six working groups and four ex-officio members from the Space Science Com mittee of ISSI (H. Balsiger, A. Galeev, G. Haerendel, and D. Southwood), con vened at ISSI in March 1996.

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This volume of the Space Sciences Series of ISSI contains review papers that were presented at the first ISSI Workshop on Source and Loss Processes of Magnetospheric Plasma in October 1996. The review papers cover all parts of the inner and outer boundaries of the magnetosphere (high-latitude ionosphere, plasmapause, magnetopause, and distant magnetotail). The volume is the first one to summarize current knowledge about the transport of plasma in both directions across the transition regions between the magnetosphere and its low-altitude and high-altitude neighbouring regions. It is primarily of interest to researchers and graduate students in space physics and astrophysics but should be part of the library of all research groups involved in space matters.

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Sources of Ion Outflow in the High Latitude Ionosphere.- Theories and Observations of Ion Energization and Outflow in the High Latitude Magnetosphere.- Four Contemporary Issues Concerning Ionospheric Plasma Flow to the Magnetosphere.- High-Latitude Particle Precipitation and Its Relationship to Magnetospheric Source Regions.- Magnetospheric Processes Leading to Precipitation.- Observations of Magnetospheric Waves and Their Relation to Precipitation.- Erosion and Recovery of the Plasmasphere in the Plasmapause Region.- Outer Plasmaspheric Plasma Properties: What We Know from Satellite Data.- Numerical Modeling of the Ring Current and Plasmasphere.- Observational Evidence for Transfer of Plasma Across the Magnetopause.- Theoretical Approaches to the Description of Magnetic Merging: The Need for Finite ?e, Anisotropic, Amhipolar Hall MHD.- Observational and Theoretical Aspects of Processes Other Than Merging and Diffusion Governing Plasma Transport Across the Magnetopause.- ISEE Ion Composition Data with Implications for Solar Wind Entry into Earth's Magnetotail.- The Cold-Dense Plasma Sheet: A GEOTAIL Perspective.- The Low-Latitude Boundary Layer at the Flanks of the Magnetopause.- Considerations of Source, Transport, Acceleration/Heating and Loss Processes Responsible for Geomagnetic Tail Particle Populations.- List of Members of the ISSI Project on Source and Loss Processes of Magnetospheric Plasma.