1. Editor’s note

   EditorialNotes 14 September 2008 Pages: 1563 - 1564

2. New progress of Double Star-Cluster joint exploration and study

   • ZhenXing Liu
   • ZuYin Pu
   • LingQian Zhang

   OriginalPaper 14 September 2008 Pages: 1565 - 1579

3. Challenges of modeling solar disturbances’ arrival times at the Earth

   • S. T. Wu
   • Ai-Hua Wang
   • Murray Dryer

   OriginalPaper 14 September 2008 Pages: 1580 - 1588

4. Mapping of ionospheric parameters for space weather predictions: A concise review

   • Y. Kamide
   • A. Ieda

   OriginalPaper 14 September 2008 Pages: 1589 - 1599

5. Numerical study of successive CMEs during November 4–5, 1998

   • YuFen Zhou
   • XueShang Feng

   OriginalPaper 14 September 2008 Pages: 1600 - 1610

6. Coordinated Cluster/Double Star observations of dayside flux transfer events on 6 April 2004

   • Jue Wang
   • ZuYin Pu
   • ZhenXing Liu

   OriginalPaper 14 September 2008 Pages: 1611 - 1619

7. Recent progress on ULF wave and its interactions with energetic particles in the inner magnetosphere

   • QiuGang Zong
   • YongFu Wang
   • Theodore A. Fritz

   OriginalPaper 14 September 2008 Pages: 1620 - 1625

8. Low-frequency fluctuations in the magnetosheath: Double Star TC-1 and Cluster observations

   • Jian Du
   • Chi Wang
   • TieLong Zhang

   OriginalPaper 14 September 2008 Pages: 1626 - 1638

9. Surveys on magnetospheric plasmas based on the Double Star Project (DSP) exploration

   • Chao Shen
   • ZhenXing Liu
   • JinBin Cao

   OriginalPaper 14 September 2008 Pages: 1639 - 1647

10. The mid-high latitude whistler mode chorus waves observed around substorm onsets

    • JunYing Yang
    • JinBin Cao
    • YuDuan Ma

    OriginalPaper 14 September 2008 Pages: 1648 - 1658

11. Uncertainty in magnetic activity indices

    • WenYao Xu

    OriginalPaper 14 September 2008 Pages: 1659 - 1664

12. Numerical study on ULF waves in a dipole field excited by sudden impulse

    • Biao Yang
    • SuiYan Fu
    • Lun Xie

    OriginalPaper 14 September 2008 Pages: 1665 - 1676

13. Solar wind transport into magnetosphere caused by magnetic reconnection at high latitude magnetopause during northward IMF: Cluster-DSP conjunction observations

    • GuangQing Yan
    • Chao Shen
    • TieLong Zhang

    OriginalPaper 14 September 2008 Pages: 1677 - 1684

14. Ultra low frequency waves observed by Double Star TC-1 in the plasmasphere boundary layer

    • Lun Xie
    • XiaoJia Zhang
    • QiuGang Zong

    OriginalPaper 14 September 2008 Pages: 1685 - 1694

15. Shrinkage of magnetosphere observed by TC-1 satellite during the high-speed solar wind stream

    • LiuYuan Li
    • JinBin Cao
    • C. M. Carr

    OriginalPaper 14 September 2008 Pages: 1695 - 1703

16. Near-Earth bursty bulk flows and AE index

    • LingQian Zhang
    • JianKui Shi
    • H. Rème

    OriginalPaper 14 September 2008 Pages: 1704 - 1712

17. A new processing method for the AE index

    • LingQian Zhang
    • ZhenXing Liu
    • JiYe Wang

    OriginalPaper 14 September 2008 Pages: 1713 - 1720

18. TC-1 observation of ion high-speed flow reversal in the near-Earth plasma sheet during substorm

    • SuPing Duan
    • ZhenXing Liu
    • C. M. Carr

    OriginalPaper 14 September 2008 Pages: 1721 - 1730

19. Iterative inversion of global magnetospheric information from energy neutral atom (ENA) images recorded by the TC-2/NUADU instrument

    • Li Lu
    • S. Mckenna-Lawlor
    • ChaoLing Tang

    OriginalPaper 14 September 2008 Pages: 1731 - 1744

20. Coupling of Pi2 wave energy in the inner magnetosphere as inferred from low-latitude ground observations

    • DeSheng Han
    • HuiGen Yang
    • C. P. Nielsen

    OriginalPaper 14 September 2008 Pages: 1745 - 1758

21. Numerical study of the auroral particle transport in the polar upper atmosphere

    • HongTao Cai
    • ShuYing Ma
    • ZuYin Pu

    OriginalPaper 14 September 2008 Pages: 1759 - 1771

22. Multi-spacecraft observations of ULF waves during the recovery phase of magnetic storm on October 30, 2003

    • YongFu Wang
    • SuiYan Fu
    • XuZhi Zhou

    OriginalPaper 14 September 2008 Pages: 1772 - 1785

23. Global ionospheric TEC response to a strong magnetic storm

    • Liang Xu
    • GuangHui Cheng
    • YongMin Liu

    OriginalPaper 14 September 2008 Pages: 1786 - 1802