Space Physics and Aeronomy

List of Contributors vii
 
Preface xi
 
Part I: The Polar Cap and Auroral Ionosphere 1
 
1 Magnetospheric Energy Input to the Ionosphere 3
Cheryl Huang
 
2 High Latitude Ionospheric Convection 21
Stephen E. Milan and Adrian Grocott
 
3 Multiscale Dynamics in the High-Latitude Ionosphere 49
Yukitoshi Nishimura, Yue Deng, Larry R. Lyons, Ryan M. McGranaghan, and Matthew D. Zettergren
 
4 Recent Advances in Polar Cap Density Structure Research 67
Shasha Zou, Gareth W. Perry, and John C. Foster
 
5 Polar Cap O+ Ion Outflow and Its Impact on Magnetospheric Dynamics 83
Binzheng Zhang and Oliver J. Brambles
 
Part II: The Subauroral and Midlatitude Ionosphere 115
 
6 Ionospheric Storm-Enhanced Density Plumes 117
John C. Foster, Shasha Zou, Roderick A. Heelis, and Philip J. Erickson
 
7 Ion Outflow and Lobe Density: Interhemispheric Asymmetries 127
Stein Haaland, Bjørn Lybekk, Lukas Maes, Karl Magnus Laundal, Arne Pedersen, Paul Tenfjord, Anders Ohma, Nikolai Østgaard, Jone Reistad, and Kristian Snekvik
 
8 Mesoscale and Small-Scale Structure of the Subauroral Geospace 139
Evgeny Mishin and Anatoly Streltsov
 
Part III: The Low-Latitude Ionosphere 159
 
9 Equatorial Ionospheric Electrodynamics 161
Bela G. Fejer and Astrid Maute
 
10 Theory and Modeling of Equatorial Spread F 185
Joe D. Huba
 
11 Observations of Equatorial Spread F: A Working Hypothesis 201
Roland T. Tsunoda
 
12 The Equatorial Electrojet 281
Hermann Lühr, Patrick Alken, and Yun-Liang Zhou
 
13 Equatorial Ionization Anomaly Variations During Geomagnetic Storms 301
Xiaoli Luan
 
Part IV: Global Ionospheric Processes 313
 
14 Penetration of the Magnetospheric Electric Fields to the Low Latitude Ionosphere 315
Takashi Kikuchi
 
15 Ionosphere and Thermosphere Coupling at Mid- and Subauroral Latitudes 339
Shun-Rong Zhang
 
16 Sudden Stratospheric Warming

Chaosong Huang, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
 
Gang Lu, National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA