Advances in Space Environment Research

Foreword: Advances in Space Environment Research.- I: Sun/Heliosphere.- Modelling of the electromagnetic field in the interplanetary space and in the earth’s magnetosphere.- Type II solar radio bursts: theory and space weather implications.- Probing solar subsurface magnetic fields.- A class of TVD type combined numerical scheme for MHD equations with a survey about numerical methods in solar wind simulations.- Solar energetic particle events: phenomenology and prediction.- Computer simulations of solar plasmas.- High-frequency radio signatures of solar eruptive flares.- Solar MHD waves and solar neutrinos.- Variations of the magnetic fields in large solar flares.- The progress of the Taiwan Oscillation Network project.- Magnetic reconnection phenomena in interplanetary space.- Reconstructed 3-D magnetic field structure and hard X-ray ribbons for 2000 Bastille-day event.- On the application of the boundary element method in coronal magnetic field reconstruction.- II: Magnetosphere/Bowshock.- Energy flux in the earth’s magnetosphere: stormsubstorm relationship.- Recent developments in magnetospheric diagnostics using ULF waves.- New insights on geomagnetic storms from model simulations using multi-spacecraft data.- A new paradigm for 3D collisionless magnetic reconnection.- Inner magnetospheric modeling with the Rice Convection Model.- Some observational evidence of Alfven surface waves induced magnetic reconnection.- Some aspects of the low latitude geomagnetic response under different solar wind conditions.- Shock wave interaction with the magnetopause.- III: Ionosphere/Atmosphere.- Optimal assimilation for ionospheric weather: theoretical aspect.- Plasma instabilities and their simulations in the equatorial F region - recent results.- Space weather in theequatorial ionosphere.- Lightning induced optical emissions in the ionosphere.- IV: Space Weather/Space Climate.- Space weather: its effects and predictability.- The FedSat microsatellite mission.- Real-time specifications of the geospace environment.- Solar influence on earth’s climate.- Space weather research in China.- V: Space Plasma Physics/Astrophysics.- MHD numerical simulations of proto-stellar jets.- In search of the origin of the highest energy cosmic rays.- Wave-particle-electric field synergetic auroral electron acceleration.- Spectrum of global ideal-magnetohydrodynamic three-dimensional ballooning modes.- Stability and waves of transonic laboratory and space plasmas.- Wave induced energetic particle generation and space plasma modeling.- Small-angle scattering and diffusion: application to relativistic shock acceleration.- On stabilizing role of parallel inhomogeneous flow on low-frequency space fluctuations.- Alfvén waves in the context of solar-like star formation: accretion columns and disks.- Kinetic excitation mechanisms for ion-cyclotron kinetic Alfvén waves in Sun-Earth connection.- MKDVB and CKB shock wave.- VI: Complex/Intelligent Systems.- Complexity, forced and/or self-organized criticality, and topological phase transitions in space plasmas.- Dynamical systems approach to space environment turbulence.- Phase coherence of MHD waves in the solar wind.- Stochastic acceleration of charged particle in nonlinear wave field.- Critical phenomenon, crisis and transition to spatiotemporal chaos in plasmas.- Phase coherence of foreshock MHD waves: wavelet analysis.- Cross field diffusion of cosmic rays in a two-dimensional magnetic field turbulence.- Chaotic temporal variability of magnetospheric radio emissions.- Langmuir turbulence and solar ratiobursts.- Self-organization in a current sheet model.- Data grids and high energy physics: a Melbourne perspective.