Uji lectures on the aurora
Subtitle: a theory of the aurora based upon electron scattering into the loss cone by the cyclotron maser instability
By: W. Calvert.
Contributors: Kyōto Daigaku. Radio Atmospheric Science Center.
Publisher: W. Calvert
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Iowa City, Iowa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 99
Subjects: Auroras.; Auroral substorms.; Electrons -- Scattering.; Gyrotrons.
Other titles: Theory of the aurora
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. xiv-xv).
"This booklet consists of the set of viewgraph transparencies that were used during a series of lectures on the aurora that were given during the summer of 1997 at the Radio Atmospheric Science Center (RASC) at Kyoto University in Uji, Japan"--P. vii.
"August 1, 1997."
Table of contents: title: 1. Previous theories; title: 2. Inward convection and scattering; title: 3. Substorm onset and discrete auroral arcs; title: 4. Substorm expansion and triggering.