Proceedings of a Symposium organized within the XIXth URSI General Assembly held in Helsinki, Finland, July 31-August 8, 1978

Inhalt

I: Natural Noise in Space.- ELF and VLF Noise Intensity and Spectra in the Magnetosphere.- ELF and VLF Activity Associated with High Latitude Hole.- Effects of Power Line Radiation into the Magnetosphere.- Ariel 3 and 4 Studies of Power Line Harmonic Radiation.- Does ELF Chorus Show Evidence of Power Line Stimulation?.- Chorus, Energetic Electrons and Magnetospheric Substorms.- II: Plasma Turbulence.- Magnetospheric Multiharmonic Instabilities.- Some Theoretical Aspects of Electrostatic Double Layers.- Formation of Double Layers in Laboratory Plasmas.- Laboratory Simulation of Ionospheric Double-Layers.- Anomalous Transition from Buneman to Ion Sound Instability.- Marginal Plasma Waves in the Equatorial Electrojet Observed by HF Coherent Radar Techniques.- III: Nonlinear Effects.- Nonlinear Whistler-Mode Interactions and Triggered Emissions in the Magnetosphere: A Review.- Siple Station Experiments on Wave-Particle Interactions in the Magnetosphere.- Non Linear Wave Particle Interaction Theory Applied to Siple Triggered Emissions.- Quenching of Natural Cyclotron Instability by Large Amplitude Monochromatic Waves Propagating in an Inhomogeneous Medium.- Nonlinear Effects Involved in the Generation of Type III Solar Radio Bursts.- A Theory of Solar Type III Radio Bursts.- IV: Ionospheric F-Region Irregularities.- A Review of Recent Results on Spread F Theory.- Equatorial Spread F: A Review of Recent Experimental Results.- Index of Subjects.