Progress in Solar-Terrestrial Physics

I: Solar Activity.- Coronal Disturbances and their Terrestrial Effects (Tutorial Lecture).- Plasma-Physical Aspects of the Solar Cycle.- Electrodynamics of the Outer Solar Atmosphere.- Dynamics of the Preflare Magnetic Field.- II: Solar Wind and Interplanetary Disturbances.- Solar Wind Theory.- Propagation of Solar Disturbances: Theories and Models.- Direct Correlations between Coronal Transients and Interplanetary Disturbances.- Observations of Interplanetary Shocks: Recent Progress.- III: Shock Acceleration Processes and Cosmic Rays.- Ion Acceleration at Shocks in Interplanetary Space: A Brief Review of Recent Observations.- Solar Cycle Variations of Cosmic Ray Intensity and Large-Scale Structure of the Heliosphere.- Theoretical Studies of Interplanetary Propagation and Acceleration.- Upstream Waves and Particles (Tutorial Lecture).- IV: Solar Wind-Magetosphere Coupling.- Solar Wind Disturbances and the Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Energy Coupling Function.- IMF Control of the Earth’s Magnetosphere.- Magnetic Structure of the Boundary Layer.- Plasma Processes within the Magnetosphere Boundaries.- V: Ring Current, Plasmasphere and Wave-Particle Interactions.- The Earth’s Ring Current: Causes, Generation and Decay (Tutorial Lecture).- The Connection between Radiation Belt and Auroral Processes.- Plasmasphere and its Interaction with the Ring Current.- Wave Generation in the Terrestrial Magnetosphere.- Wave Particle Interactions as an Energy Transfer Mechanism between Different Particle Species.- Spacecraft Charging Effects.- VI: Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Interactions and Terrestrial Effects.- Electric Fields in the Ionosphere and Magnetosphere.- Electric Currents and Voltage Drops along Auroral Field Lines.- Dynamics of the Disturbed Ionosphere (Tutorial Lecture).- Ionospheric Disturbances Resulting from Ion-Neutral Coupling.- Geomagnetic Induction Effects in Ground-Based Systems.- VII: Thermo Sphere/Middle Atmosphere.- Dynamics of the Middle Atmosphere (Tutorial Lecture).- Solar Variability and Minor Constituents in the Lower Thermosphere and in the Mesosphere.- Circulation and Waves in the Middle Atmosphere in Winter.- Meteorological Control of the D-Region (Tutorial Lecture).- NO and Temperature Control of the D Region.