Nonlinear Wave and Plasma Structures in the Auroral and Subauroral Geospace

Table of Contents

Part 1. INTRODUCTION: Near-Earth Space Environment

Part 2. PLASMA WAVES AND INSTABILITIES

2.1. Plasma Waves

2.2. Plasma Instabilities

2.3. Nonlinear Interactions

Part 3: AURORAL GEOSPACE

3.1.Earthbound Injections in the Near Tail

3.2. Substorms

3.3 Multiscale Aurora: Structure and Dynamics

3.4. Alfv�nic Aurora

Part 4. NONLINEAR EFFECTS IN NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL AURORA

4.1. Energetic Electron Impact on the Upper Atmosphere

4.2. Artificial Aurora

4.3. Theory of Artificial and Enhanced Aurora

4.4. E/F Region Turbulent Heating

Part 5. SUBAURORAL GEOSPACE

5.1. Subauroral Flows

5.2. Subauroral ULF Wave Structures

5.3. Subauroral Arcs

5.4. Generation and Dynamics of Subauroral VLF Whistlers

Authors

Evgeny Mishin Air Force Research Laboratory, Space Vehicles Directorate, USA. Dr. E. V. Mishin received his Ph.D. in Plasma Physics (1974) and D.Sc. in Radiophysics (1985) from the Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere, and Radio Wave Propagation, Academy of Sciences (IZMIRAN), Troitsk, Moscow, RF. He worked at IZMIRAN as Junior Scientific Researcher, Senior Scientific Researcher, and Head Laboratory (1974-1993), was a Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Max-Planck Institute for Aeronomy, Lindau, Germany (1993-1999), Visiting Scholar at the MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA (1999-2001), Senior Research Scientist at Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA (2001-2008), and Senior Research Physicist at the Air Force Research Laboratory since 2008. Dr. Mishin is an expert in active space experiments with intense particle and electromagnetic beams and nonlinear plasma effects in the auroral and subauroral geospace. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Anatoly Streltsov Department of Physical Sciences, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, FL, USA. Dr. A. V. Streltsov received a degree in Radiophysics (1990) from the Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation, Academy of Sciences (IZMIRAN), Moscow, Russia and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering/Plasma Physics (1995) from Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA. He worked as a Research Assistant Professor and Research Associate Professor at Dartmouth College from 1995 until 2011. From 2004-2005 he worked as a Principal Scientist in Icarus Research Inc., Bethesda, USA, and from 2005-2006 he worked as a Research Physicist in Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC. In 2011 he joined the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL, and currently is a Professor of Engineering Physics at the Department of Physical Sciences. Dr. Streltsov is an expert in numerical studies of magnetosphere-ionosphere interactions, mechanisms of generation and propagation of ULF and VLF waves in the magnetosphere, and wave-particle interactions in the Earth's radiation belts.