Although interesting in its own right, due to the ever increasing use of satellites for communication and navigation, weather in the ionosphere is of great concern. Every such system uses trans-ionospheric propagation of radiowaves, waves which must traverse the often turbulent ionosphere. Understanding this turbulence and predicting it are one of the major goals of the National Space Weather program. Acquiring such a prediction capability will rest on understanding the very topics of this book, the plasma physics and electrodynamics of the system.
1 Introductory and Background Material
2 Fundamentals of Atmospheric, Ionospheric, and Magnetospheric Plasma Dynamics
3 Dynamics and Electrodynamics of the Equatorial Zone
4 Equatorial PlasmaInstabilities and Mesospheric Turbulence
5 Hydro-and Electrodynamics of the Midlatitude Ionosphere
6 Waves and Instabilities at Midlatitudes
7 Dynamics and Electrodynamics of the Mesosphere
8 High-Latitude Electrodynamics
9 Ionospheric Response to Electric Fields
10 Instabilities and Structures in the High-Latitude Ionosphere