Earth's Low-Latitude Boundary Layer [Hardcover]

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 133.

We imagine the reader of this preface standing at the AGU bookstall wondering if the tome in hand is worth buying. The answer is no, except for certain trifling exceptions. Those who wish to learn about the exciting pioneering years of LLBL research should buy the book for Tim Eastman's excellent historical review, our opening chapter. When did the term LLBL first enter the field? Eastman will tell you, and much else besides.

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 Latitlc|