The Solar Wind-Magnetosphere System 3

This volume contains edited versions of papers presen- ted on the “Solar Wind-Magnetosphere System” Workshop in September 1998 in Graz. This meeting is the third on this topic to be held in Graz, and has its roots in the traditional good contacts and intensive collaboration between the Space Research Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and various Russian institutes that have been built up over more that ten years. This collaboration involve research in several fields of plasmabehaviour and their applications to space physics. Within this time, many other plasma and space physics groups have entered into the spirit of collaboration, and conferences in many topics of space research have been held in the city of Graz,attracting the interest of physicists from all over the world. The focal point of the talks was magnetic reconnection, but a diverse timetable permitted contributions dealing with classical statistical mechanics, solar physics, the interplanetary medium, the Earth’s magnetosheath and magnetosphere, ionospheric physics, phenomena on other planets, comets, and wave phenomena.