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						     Volume 6, Number 56
						     November 6, 1996

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CALL FOR PAPERS - IAGA SESSION 3.01/2.07/4.11: PLASMA PROCESSES AT 
THE EARTH'S MAGNETOPAUSE AND THEIR IONOSPHERIC EFFECTS
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from: Mike Lockwood   < m.lockwood at rl.ac.uk >

8th Scientific Assembly of IAGA, Uppasla

Session 3.01/2.07/4.11
Plasma Processes At The Earth's Magnetopause
And Their Ionospheric Effects

AM & PM Friday, 8th, and Saturday, 9th, August 1997

The magnetopause is central to studies of solar-terrestrial physics
because the transfer of momentum, mass and energy from the
shocked solar wind to the coupled magnetosphere-ionosphere-
thermosphere system is not yet fully understood. It is also
interesting as a boundary across which most plasma and field
parameters usually show at least some shear. It is a central
objective of a large number of recent and future satellite missions
and its projection along geomagnetic field lines, the cusp/LLBL
ionosphere, is within the field of view of new ground-based
facilities. Combined with modelling and theoretical studies, these
new observations promise to reveal much about how the
magnetopause boundary behaves.

We therefore invite contributed talks on satellite and ground-based
observations of the magnetopause, cusp and LLBL regions, as
well as relevant theoretical and simulation studies of  processes,
structure and effects. Contributed papers will be of 15 minutes
duration, including discussion. A major poster session is planned in
addition. Contributors are invited to send an abstract to the
convenors of the session before the IAGA official abstract
deadline (February 15, 1997). Rules for abstract submission can be
accessed via the WWW ( http://www.irfu.se/iaga_97.html ) or
requested from the convenors:

Mike Lockwood
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire,
OX11 0QX,
England, U.K.
phone: +44-235-446496; fax: +44-235-445848;
e-mail: m.lockwood at rl.ac.uk

David G. Sibeck
Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Johns
Hopkins Road, 24E-155 S1P Group, Laurel, MD 20723-6099,
USA
phone: +1-301-953-5000 (X 8545); fax: +1-301-953-6670;
e-mail: SIBECK at s1pvx9.jhuapl.edu

Toshifumi Mukai
Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, 3-1-1-Yoshinodai,
Sagamihara, Kanagawa 229, Japan
phone: +81-42-751-3911 (X 2510); fax: +81-42-759-4237
e-mail: mukai at fujitubo.gtl.isas.ac.jp

Goetz Paschmann
Max-Planck-Institut fur Extra-Terrestrische Physik, 85748
Garching , Germany
phone: +49-89-3299-3868; fax: +49-89-3299-3351;
e-mail: gep at mpe-garching.mpg.de

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