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CONTENTS Page INTRODUCT ION ..........................................................................................................................................5 Chapter I. MAGNETIC FIELD AND PLASMA PRESSURE IN THE NEAR-EARTH SPACE...........................................................................................................................................7 1.1. Interrelation of the magnetic field and pressure............................................................7 1.2. Features of different plasma dom ains........................................................................... ..7 1.3. Plasma pressure distribution in the equatorial plane of the magnetosphere.......... }3 1.4. Empirical models of the magnetic field in the equatorial plane of the m a g n e to ^ h e re .............................................................................................................................^ 1.5. Theoretical models of the magnetosphere.................................................................... ..20 Chapter 2. ELECTRIC FIELDS AND RELATED ELECTRIC CU R R EN T S ........................... ..36 2.1. Typical m istakes................................................................................................................. .36 2.2. Electric field in the ionosphere....................................................................................... ..37 2.3. Electric conductivity of the ionosphere............................................................................ 4 ] 2.4. Bfrfceland currents................................................................................................................45 2.5. Equivalent electric currents................................................................................................48 2.6. Sources of the high-latitude electric fields and cu rren ts............................................ .. 5 j Chapter 3. INSTABILITIES IN THE NEAR-EARTH PLA SMA ................................................... .. 6 8 3.1. Interchange instability..................................................................................... ..68 3.2. Kelvin-Hehnholtz instability............................................................................ ..77 3.3. Tearing instability............................................................................................................. ..80 3.4. Feedback instability.......................................................................................................... 3.5. Gradient-drift instability.................................................................................................. ..82 3.6. Farley-Buneman instability................................................................................85 3.7. Kinetic instabilities............................................................................................................ ..87 Chapter 4. GEOEFFICIENCY OF THE SOLAR W IN D ................................................................... 92 4.1. Response to a change in the solar wind dynamic pressure................................. .92 4.2. GeoefTiciency of the IMF southward component............................................. ..96 4.3. Solar wind parameters of minor geoefficiency................................................. ...107 REFERENCES ................................................................................................................................................112