| Preface | |
| Participants | |
| Introductory Observations: | |
| Auroral phenomena | |
| Aurural Spectoscopy and Thermosphere: | |
| Overview of auroral spectroscopy | |
| Auroral excitation processes | |
| Auroral emission processes and remote sensing | |
| Thermospheric response and feedback to auroral inputs | |
| Thermospheric dynamics, energetics and composition at auroral latitudes | |
| Auroral Particles and Acceleration Mechanisms: | |
| Overview of electron and ion precipitation in the auroral oval | |
| Diagnosis of auroral acceleration mechanisms by particle measurements | |
| Characteristics of magnetic-field aligned electric fields in the auroral acceleration region | |
| Auroral electron acceleration: a case for the stochastic alternative | |
| Auroral ion acceleration and its relationship to ion composition | |
| Ion precipitation and the transport of ions accelerated by auroral processes | |
| Auroras and Magnetospheric Configuation: | |
| What determines the size of the auroral oval? | |
| The quiet-time aurora and the magnetospheric configuration | |
| Discrete auroras and magnetatail processes | |
| Auroral luminosity and its relationship to magnetospheric plasma domains | |
| The aurora and middle magnetospheric processes | |
| Auroral plasma waves | |
| Aurural Substorms and Dynamics: | |
| Overview of observations and models of auroral substorms | |
| Diagnosis of auroral dynamics using global aurora imaging with emphasis on large-scale evolutions | |
| Diagnosis of auroral dynamics using global auroral imaging with emphasis on localized and transient features | |
| Poleward motions of auroral structures | |
| A magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling theory of substorms including magnetotail dynamics | |
| Auroral Structures: | |
| Overview of auroral spatial scales | |
| Mesoscale structures in auroral phenomena | |
| The pulsating aurora and its relationship to fields and charged-particle precipitation | |
| Electrodynamics of active auroral forms: westward traveling surges and omega bands | |
| Large-scale distribution of discrete auroras and field-aligned currents | |
| Aurora and Ionosphere: | |
| The auroral electrojets: relative importance of ionspheric conductivities and electric fields | |
| Large-scale currents connecting the polar ionosphere with the magnetosphere | |
| Ionosphere-magnetosphere mapping of dynamic auroral structures during substorms | |
| Incoherent scatter observations of the auroral ionosphere with the EISCAT radar facility | |
| Ground-based measurements of joule heating rates | |
| Global observations: a future research thrust in auroral and magnetospheric research | |
| Index | |
| Colour plates | |
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