Effects of Energy, Momentum and Particle Transport in the Near-Earth SolarTerrestrial System

摘要

This work has included the scientific studies of high-latitude plasmairregularities and the physics of the aurora, engineering of space environmental sensors, and dat processing services. Scientific studies were conducted in the areas of energy dissipation, magnetosphere-ionosphere interactions and ionospheric plasma. Design work has been done on a series of plasma instruments for the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP), the Combined Release and Radiation Effects Studies (CRRES), the Photovoltaic Array Space Power (PASP), the Interactions Measurements Payload for Shuttle (IMPS) and the NASA POLAR satellite program. Computer programs have been written to process RPA and Drift Meter data from the F8 and F9 DMSP satellites. Keywords: Ionosphere, Magnetosphere, Auroral electrojet, Auroral currents, Electric fields, Magnetic fields, Plasma irregularities, Cusp. (JHD)