Geoelectromagnetic Waves,

Preface. Notation. Introduction. The Earth's crust: Seismic waves; The inductive seismomagnetic effect; The inertial seismomagnetic effect; Bibliography. Ocean: Magnetohydrodynamics; Perturbation of the geomagnetic field by ocean waves; Bibliography. Atmosphere and ionosphere: Global resonances of the Earth-ionosphere cavity; The ionosphere as a reflector and transmitter; The ionosphere as a resonator and waveguide; Bibliography. The magnetosphere: Waves in a cold plasma; Ray theory; A transverse waveguide under the arch of plasmasphere; Longitudinal waveguides; Oscillations of magnetic shells; Resonance in the caustic shadow; Bibliography. Modulation: Wave packets; Impulses; Bibliography. Instability: The method of kinetic equations; Self-excitation of waves in a transverse waveguide; Self-excitation of longitudinal waveguides; Origin of pulsations of rising frequency; Pulsations of extramagnetospheric origin; Bibliography. Nonlinearity: Ponderomotive forces; Solitons; Vortices; Bibliography. Fluctuational and critical phenomena: Phenomenological modelling; An auto-oscillatory model of pulsations; Phenomenology of magnetic storms; Bibliography. Hydromagnetic diagnostics and geoelectric prospecting: Introductory comments; Surface impedance of the Earth; Diagnostics of the magnetosphere; Interplanetary medium diagnostics; Bibliography. Epilogue: geoelectromagnetic waves and man. Addenda. References. Index.