Solar-Terrestrial Physics/1970

The Sun.- Solar Energy Sources.- Structure and Dynamics of the Solar Corona.- Large-Scale Magnetic Fields and Activity Patterns on the Sun.- Local Magnetic Fields on the Sun.- Properties of Solar Active Regions.- Permanent Sources of Particle Emission from the Sun.- Solar Discrete Particle Events.- Solar Radiobursts.- Evidence that Solar X-Ray Emission is of Purely Thermal Origin (Also Observation of Far UV Flash During 28 August 1966 Proton Flare).- Particle Acceleration and Plasma Ejection from the Sun.- Particle Diffusion in the Solar Corona.- Time Variations in Solar Activity.- Methods for the Forecasting of Solar Flares.- The Interplanetary Medium.- Composition and Dynamics of the Solar Wind Plasma.- The Configuration of the Interplanetary Magnetic Field.- Scattering and Scintillations of Discrete Radio Sources as a Measure of the Interplanetary Plasma Irregularities.- Galactic Cosmic Ray Modulation by the Interplanetary Medium (Including the Problem of the Outer Boundary).- Low-Energy Cosmic Rays in Interplanetary Space.- Energetic Solar Particles in the Interplanetary Medium.- Discontinuities and Shock Waves in the Interplanetary Medium and Their Interaction with the Magnetosphere.- Interaction of the Solar Wind with the Moon.- The Magnetosphere.- The Configuration of the Geomagnetic Field.- Particle Motions in the Earth’s Magnetosphere.- Sources, Losses, and Transport of Magnetospherically Trapped Particles.- Magnetospheric Substorms: A Model.- Auroras and Associated Phenomena.- Magnetospheric Plasma.- The Role of the Geomagnetic Tail in Substorms.- Instabilities in the Magnetosphere (Theoretical Treatment).- Gyroresonant Wave-Particle Interactions.- Diffusion and Acceleration in the Earth’s Radiation Belts.- Electric Fields in the Magnetosphere and the Origin of Trapped Radiation.- The Upper Atmosphere.- Interpretation of Ionospheric Effects of Solar Flares.- Behaviour of Ionized Components in the Chemistry and Aeronomy of D and E Regions.- The Chemistry ofNeutral Species in the D and E Regions.- Transport Processes in the Thermosphere.- The Exosphere and Geocorona.- Electric Fields and their Effects in the Ionosphere.- Electric Fields and Their Effects in the Ionosphere.- The Structure of the plasmasphere on the Basis of Direct Measurements.- The Structure of the Plasmasphere on the Basis of Indirect Measurements.- On the Interaction Between the Magnetosphere and the Ionosphere.- Theoretical Model of F-Region Storms.