<p>Lecture, three hours. Transfer of plasma across magnetopause, sources for magnetotail, ionospheric plasma flow to magnetosphere, precipitation of magnetospheric particles, plasmasphere, and ring current. S/U or letter grading.</p>

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Sources and Losses of Magnetospheric Plasma

A&OSCI258

4 units