Plasma Science From Fundamental Research to Technological Applications (1995) / Chapter Skim
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Knowledge of the physical processes operative in all of these examples is an important goal of space plasma physics for several reasons. First, it provides us with an understanding in quantitative terms of the variety of interrelated complex processes acting to shape and influence our terrestrial environment.
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Models and simulations of the 1960s and 1970s evolved as a consequence of attempts to understand particular features of the solar-terrestrial environment (e.g., the composition and thermal structure of the atmosphere and ionosphere, the dynamics of interhemispheric plasma interchange, the coupled dynamics of energetic plasma in the magnetosphere and electric fields and currents in the magnetosphere and ionosphere, the interaction of the solar wind with the geomagnetic field, the formation of shocks in the solar wind, the propagation of solar and galactic cosmic rays in the solar wind, and the dynamics of magnetic reconnection)
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