Advances in Space Environment Research

Foreword: Advances in Space Environment Research.- I: Sun/Heliosphere.- Modelling of the electromagnetic field in the interplanetary space and in the earth's magnetosphere.- Type II solar radio bursts: theory and space weather implications.- Probing solar subsurface magnetic fields.- A class of TVD type combined numerical scheme for MHD equations with a survey about numerical methods in solar wind simulations.- Solar energetic particle events: phenomenology and prediction.- Computer simulations of solar plasmas.- High-frequency radio signatures of solar eruptive flares.- Solar MHD waves and solar neutrinos.- Variations of the magnetic fields in large solar flares.- The progress of the Taiwan Oscillation Network project.- Magnetic reconnection phenomena in interplanetary space.- Reconstructed 3-D magnetic field structure and hard X-ray ribbons for 2000 Bastille-day event.- On the application of the boundary element method in coronal magnetic field reconstruction.- II: Magnetosphere/Bowshock.- Energy flux in the earth's magnetosphere: stormsubstorm relationship.- Recent developments in magnetospheric diagnostics using ULF waves.- New insights on geomagnetic storms from model simulations using multi-spacecraft data.- A new paradigm for 3D collisionless magnetic reconnection.- Inner magnetospheric modeling with the Rice Convection Model.- Some observational evidence of Alfven surface waves induced magnetic reconnection.- Some aspects of the low latitude geomagnetic response under different solar wind conditions.- Shock wave interaction with the magnetopause.- III: Ionosphere/Atmosphere.- Optimal assimilation for ionospheric weather: theoretical aspect.- Plasma instabilities and their simulations in the equatorial F region - recent results.- Space weather in theequatorial ionosphere.- Lightning induced optical emissions in the ionosphere.- IV: Space Weather/Space Climate.- Space weather: its effects and predictability.- The FedSat microsatellite mission.- Real-time