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An up-to-date progress report on the current status of solar-terrestrial relation studies with an emphasis on observations by the Russian Interball spacecraft and the Czech Magion subsatellites. Papers in the volume describe the various spacecraft in the International Solar-Terrestrial Program and the research questions that they are being used to address. The emphasis is on correlative studies employing multiple instruments and multiple spacecraft.
The book begins with a description of each spacecraft active in 1998 and describes the roles they can play in correlative studies. This is followed by an up-to-date status report concerning ongoing studies of the solar wind, foreshock, bow shock, magnetopause, magnetotail, and ionosphere, with an emphasis on the observations made by the four Interball spacecraft.
Readership: Researchers and graduate students of space physics and astrophysics.
List of contents
Equator-S: Mission and first results.- Multi-point substorm observations of the outer plasma sheet dynamics on November 13, 1996.- The Wind program: 1998-2000.- Modeling of a prebreakup arc and substorm onset by the "minimum-B" model.- Closely-spaced multi-satellite project ROY to study small-scale structures during magnetic field annihilation and strong turbulence in critical magnetospheric regions: Results of Phase A.- Heliospheric energetic particle flux variations.- On the Earth's bow shock near solar minimum.- Interball and Geotail observations of flux transfer events.- The high-altitude cusp: Interball observations.- NASA's IMP 8 spacecraft.- Solar wind correlations: Using a solar wind monitor successfully.- The influence of convection on magnetotail variability.- Bow shock position: Observations and models.- The high-and low-latitude boundary layers in the magnetotail.- Magnetospheric response to a hot flow anomaly.- Crossing the heliospheric current sheet.- Cooperative studies between IKI and SwRI for the Interball project.- Study of vortices in the dawn plasma sheet using Interball-1 data.- Plasma and magnetic field variations in the magnetosheath: Interball-1 and ISTP Spacecraft observations.
Summary
Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Coordinated Studies of the Solar Wind-Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Interaction: Interball in the ISTP Program, held in Kosice, Slovakia, 7-11 September, 1998
