Table of Contents
Dedication v
Contributors ix
Preface xiii
Part I: Introduction
1 Pioneers of Electric Currents in Geospace 3Asgeir Brekke
2 Current Systems in Planetary Magnetospheres: A Comparative Overview 17Krishan K. Khurana and Jiang Liu
3 Electric Currents in the Solar Atmosphere 43Gregory D. Fleishman and Alexei A. Pevtsov
4 Multipoint Analysis of Electric Currents in Geospace Using the Curlometer Technique 67M. W. Dunlop, S. Haaland, X‐C. Dong, H. R. Middleton, C. P. Escoubet, Y.-Y. Yang, Q.-H. Zhang, J‐K. Shi, and C. T. Russell
5 Inferring Currents from the Zeeman Effect at the Solar Surface 81Graham Barnes and K. D. Leka
Part II: Ring Currents
6 ENA Imaging of Planetary Ring Currents 95P. C. Brandt, S. Y. Hsieh, R. DeMajistre, and D. G. Mitchell
7 Terrestrial Ring Current: A Review of Cluster Results Based on the Curlometer Technique 115I. Dandouras, S. Rochel‐Grimald, C. Vallat, and M. W. Dunlop
8 The Nature of Jupiter’s Magnetodisk Current System 127N. Achilleos
9 The Ring Current of Saturn 139N. Sergis, E. J. Bunce, J. F. Carbary, S. W. H. Cowley, X. Jia, D. C. Hamilton, S. M. Krimigis, D. G. Mitchell, and M. K. Dougherty
Part III: Current Sheets
10 Review on the Characteristics of the Current Sheet in the Earth’s Magnetotail 157A. T. Y. Lui
11 Recent Advances Regarding the Mars Magnetotail Current Sheet 177Michael W. Liemohn and Shaosui Xu
12 Current Sheets at the Giant Planets 191Christopher S. Arridge and Carley J. Martin
13 Planetary Magnetopause and Heliopause Current Sheets 207E. S. Belenkaya
14 MHS Models of Current Layers in the Solar Atmosphere 219Clare E. Parnell
15 Large‐Scale Current Sheets in Flares and CMEs 239Jun Lin and Lei Ni
Part IV: Field‐Aligned Currents
16 A Review of Birkeland Current Research Using AMPERE 259John C. Coxon, Stephen E. Milan, and Brian J. Anderson
17 Birkeland Currents at Mercury: Review and Comparison With Earth 279Brian J. Anderson, Catherine L. Johnson, Haje Korth, and Lydia C. Philpott
18 Recent Advances in the Study of Upward Field‐aligned Currents Generated Near the Earth’s Magnetopause Boundary 303Simon Wing, Jay R. Johnson, and Marius Echim
19 The Current System of Dipolarizing Flux Bundles and Their Role as Wedgelets in the Substorm Current Wedge 323Jiang Liu, V. Angelopoulos, Zhonghua Yao, Xiangning Chu, Xu‐Zhi Zhou, and A. Runov
20 Cusp Current System: An Energy Source View 339M. Yamauchi and R. Slapak
21 Magnetospheric and Atmospheric Controls of Giant Planet Auroral Currents 359L. C. Ray
22 The Ambivalent Role of Field‐Aligned Electric Currents in the Solar Atmosphere 371Manolis K. Georgoulis
23 Solar Active Region Electric Currents Before and During Eruptive Flares 391B. Schmieder and G. Aulanier
Part V: Ionospheric Currents
24 Review of Data Analysis Techniques for Estimating Ionospheric Currents Based on MIRACLE and Satellite Observations 409H. Vanhamäki and L. Juusola
25 Earth’s Ionosphere: Theory and Phenomenology of Cowling Channels 427Akimasa Yoshikawa and Ryoichi Fujii
26 Ionospheric Currents at Mars and Their Electrodynamic Effects 445Matthew Fillingim
27 Ionospheric Currents due to Ionosphere‐Magnetosphere Coupling at Jupiter and Saturn 459G. J. Hunt, S. W. H. Cowley, and J. D. Nichols
Part VI: Other Current Systems
28 The Bow Shock Current System 479Ramon E. Lopez
29 Current Systems of Inert Moons 497M. Holmström and S. Fatemi
30 Currents in Cometary Comae 513Martin Volwerk
Index 535