Advances in Space Environment Research, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003 Volume I

Advances in Space Environment Research - Volume I contains the proceedings of two international workshops, the World Space Environment Forum (WSEF2002) and the High Performance Computing in Space Environment Research (HPC2002), organized by the World Institute for Space Environment Research (WISER) from 22 July to 2 August 2002 in Adelaide, Australia.
The articles in this volume review the state-of-the-art of the theoretical, computational and observational studies of the physical processes of Sun-Earth connections and Space Environment. They cover six topical areas: Sun/Heliosphere, Magnetosphere/Bow Shock, Ionosphere/Atmosphere, Space Weather/Space Climate, Space Plasma Physics/Astrophysics, and Complex/Intelligent Systems.

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 specifications of the geospace environment.- Solar influence on earth’s climate.- Space weather research in China.- V: Space Plasma Physics/Astrophysics.- MHD numerical simulations of proto-stellar jets.- In search of the origin of the highest energy cosmic rays.- Wave-particle-electric field synergetic auroral electron acceleration.- Spectrum of global ideal-magnetohydrodynamic three-dimensional ballooning modes.- Stability and waves of transonic laboratory and space plasmas.- Wave induced energetic particle generation and space plasma modeling.- Small-angle scattering and diffusion: application to relativistic shock acceleration.- On stabilizing role of parallel inhomogeneous flow on low-frequency space fluctuations.- Alfvén waves in the context of solar-like star formation: accretion columns and disks.- Kinetic excitation mechanisms for ion-cyclotron kinetic Alfvén waves in Sun-Earth connection.- MKDVB and CKB shock wave.- VI: Complex/Intelligent Systems.- Complexity, forced and/or self-organized criticality, and topological phase transitions in space plasmas.- Dynamical systems approach to space environment turbulence.- Phase coherence of MHD waves in the solar wind.- Stochastic acceleration of charged particle in nonlinear wave field.- Critical phenomenon, crisis and transition to spatiotemporal chaos in plasmas.- Phase coherence of foreshock MHD waves: wavelet analysis.- Cross field diffusion of cosmic rays in a two-dimensional magnetic field turbulence.- Chaotic temporal variability of magnetospheric radio emissions.- Langmuir turbulence and solar ratiobursts.- Self-organization in a current sheet model.- Data grids and high energy physics: a Melbourne perspective.