Preface
P. T. Newell and T G. Onsager ix
Historical Background
Historical Review (Pre-1980) of Magnetospheric Boundary Layers
and the Low-Latitude Boundary Layer
Timothy E. Eastman 1
LLBL Theory and Modeling From a Global Perspective
Theory of the Low Latitude Boundary Layer and Its Coupling to the
Ionosphere: A Tutorial Review
Bengt U. O. Sonnerup and Keith D. Siebert 13
Modeling Magnetospheric Sources
Raymond J. Walker, Maha Ashour-Abdalla, Tatsuki Ogino, Vahe
Peroomian, and Robert L Richard 33
Interplanetary Magnetic Field-Dependent Impact of Solar Wind
Ions on Earth's Magnetopause
Vahe Peroomian 45
Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability and Magnetic Reconnection: Mass
Transport at the LLBL
A. Otto and K. Nykyri 53
LLBL Structure: High-Altitude Observations
Cluster Magnetic Field Observations of Magnetospheric
Boundaries
T S. Horbury,, A. Balogh, M. W. Dunlop, P. J. Cargill, E. A.
Lucek, T Oddyf P. Brown, C. Can 53
K.-H. Fornagon, and E. Georgescu 63
The Structure of Magnetopause Layers at Low Latitudes: INTERBALL
Contributions
Z. Nemecek, J. Safrankova, L Prech, and J.-A. Sauvaud 71
Enhanced Magnetospheric/Boundary Layer Plasma Flows Observed
During Transient Magnetopause Crossings
K-H. Kim, N. Lin, C A. Cattell, D.-H. Lee, S. Kokubun, T Mukai,
and K. Tsuruda 83
High-Latitude Magnetic Reconnection in Sub-Alfvenic Flow as
Observed by Inter ball Tail on 29 May 1996
V. N. Smirnov, L. A. Avanov, J. H. Waite, Jr., S. A. Fuselier,
and O. L. Vaisberg 93
Energetic Ions in the High Latitude Boundary Layer of the
Magnetosphere - RAPID/CLUSTER Observation
Q .- C . Zong, T A. Fritz, B. Wilken, and P. Daly 101
Formation of the LLBL by Merging
Low-Latitude Boundary Layer Formation by Magnetic
Reconnection
T G. Onsager and J. D. Scudder 111
A Model of the Formation of the Low-Latitude Boundary Layer for
Northward IMF by Reconnection:
A Summary and Review
P. Song, C. T. Russell, T. I. Gombosi, and D. L DeZeeuw
121
Formation of the LLBL in the Context of a Unifying Magnetopause
Reconnection Mechanism
Athanasios Boudouridis, Harlan E. Spence, and J. G. Onsager
131
Antiparallel Reconnection as a Possible Source of High- and
Low-Latitude Boundary Layers
A. Federov, E. Budnik, H. Stenuit, T. Moreau, and J.-A.
Sauvaud 139
Formation of the LLBL by Collective Kinetic Effects
Magnetosheath Injections Deep Inside the Closed LLBL: A Review of
Observations
Patrick T. Newell and Ching-I. Meng 149
Initial Condition for Plasma Transfer Events
Walter J. Heikkila 157
The Impulsive Penetration Mechanism: Advances in the Numerical
and Experimental Verification
Marius M. Echim and Joseph Lemaire 169
Signatures of Direct Magnetosheath Plasma Injections Onto Closed
Field-Line Regions
Based on Observations at Mid- and Low-Altitudes
M. Yamauchi, R. Lundin, O. Norberg, I. Sandahl, L Eliasson, and
D. Winningham 1 79
LLBL and Wave Effects
ELF/VLF Plasma Waves in the Low Latitude Boundary Layer
Bruce T. Tsurutani, Gurbax S. Lakhina, Liwei Zhang, Jolene S.
Pickett, and Yoshiya Kasahara 189
Equator-S Observations of Boundary Signatures: FTE's or
Kelvin-Helmholtz Waves?
K. Nykyri, A. Otto, J. Buchner, B. Nikutowski, W. Baumjohann, L
M. Kistler, and C. Mouikis 205
Kinetic Alfven Waves at the Magnetopause?Mode Conversion,
Transport, and Formation of LLBL
Jay R. Johnson and C. Z. Cheng 211
Nonconjugate ULF Wave Power Observed by Ground Magnetometers in
the Northern and Southern
Dayside Cusp/Cleft/LLBL Regions
M. J. Engebretson, J. L. Posch, and W. J. Hughes 223
High-Latitude Mapping of ULF Activity, Field-Aligned Currents,
and DMSP-Based Dayside
Magnetospheric Domains
ViacheslavA. Pilipenko, Valeriy A. Martines-Bedenko, Mark J.
Engebretson, Vladimir O. Pctpitashvilli,
and Patrick T. Newell 231
