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A tutorial discussion is presented of the Earth’s magnetosphere, and its interaction with the solar wind at its outer boundary, and with the ionosphere at its inner boundary. Topics covered include magnetospheric cavity formation, magnetic reconnection, plasma convection, structure of magnetosphere plasma populations, substorm dynamics, ionospheric convection, magnetospheric and ionospheric current systems, particle precipitation and the aurora.
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Cowley, S.W.H. (1993). The Magnetosphere and Its Interaction with the Solar Wind and with the Ionosphere. In: DeWitt, R.N., Duston, D., Hyder, A.K. (eds) The Behavior of Systems in the Space Environment. NATO ASI Series, vol 245. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2048-7_7
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