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Magnetospheric DC Electric Fields; Present Knowledge and Outstanding Problems to be Solved during the IMS

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Present knowledge of the relationships between perpendicular and parallel electric fields in the ionosphere and magnetosphere and of their configurations, sources, and variations is summarised with a view to illustrating some important problems that should be addressed by IMS electric-field research programmes. These problems include determination of the source, morphology, and dynamics of parallel electric fields, the role of parallel electric fields and time-varying magnetic fields in decoupling magnetosphere-ionosphere dynamics, the configuration of the neutral line and its effect on the electric-field coupling from the interplanetary medium to the magnetosphere for arbitrary interplanetary magnetic-field directions, the importance of processes other than reconnection in producing the magnetospheric potential field, and the dynamics of polarisation and other processes that produce low-frequency turbulence and small-scale spatial structure in the electric fields.

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Mozer, F.S. (1976). Magnetospheric DC Electric Fields; Present Knowledge and Outstanding Problems to be Solved during the IMS. In: Knott, K., Battrick, B. (eds) The Scientific Satellite Programme during the International Magnetospheric Study. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 57. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1892-0_8

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