The Solar-Terrestrial System.- Solar System Magnetohydrodynamics: Concepts and Basic Equations.- Solar System Magnetohydrodynamics.- Solar and Interplanetary Physics.- Generation of Solar Magnetic Fields.- Cyclonic Convection.- Heating Of the Outer Solar Atmosphere.- Idealized Problem.- Hydromagnetic Waves in the Interplanetary Medium.- Solar Cosmic Rays — Their Injection, Acceleration, and Propagation.- Solar Modulation of Galactic Cosmic Rays.- The Acceleration of Energetic Particles in the Solar Wind.- Magnetospheric Physics.- Large-Scale Morphology of the Magnetosphere.- Magnetic Field Line Merging: Basic Concepts.- Solar-Wind Magnetosphere Coupling.- The Quasi-Static (Slow-Flow) Region of the Magnetosphere.- Global MHD Model of the Earth’s Magnetosphere.- Origins and Consequences of Parallel Electric Fields.- Electrostatic Ion Acoustic Waves.- Hydromagnetic Waves in the Magnetosphere.- Comparative Magnetospheres.- The Use and Misuse of Statistical Analyses.- Upper Atmospheric Physics.- Thermospheric Dynamics and Electrodynamics.- The Terrestrial Ionosphere.- Photochemical Processes in the Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere.- Physics of the Mesopause Region.- Auroral Excitation and Energy Dissipation.- Small-Scale Structure in the Earth1s Ionosphere: Theory and Numerical Simulation.- Comparative Ionospheres.- II. The Outer Planets.

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