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Accordingly, the publishers, the editorial board and editors and their respective employees, officers and agents accept no responsibility or liability whatsoever for the consequences of any such inaccurate or misleading data, opinion or statement. Published Monthly. Copyright © 1993 Pergamon Press Ltd CONTENTS JANUARY F. VERHEEST Nonlinear dust-acoustic waves in multispecies dusty plasmas A.C. AIkIN Spring polar ozone behavior W.-M. Macex and S. W. H. CowLey On a steady-state plasma sheet in the distant magnetotail W. T. Kasprzak and H. B. NigEMANN Evidence for enhanced dynamic flow in ionospheric holes from the Pioneer Venus Orbiter Neutral Mass Spectrometer J. Y. Eccces and W. J. Raitt Reactive collision terms for fluid transport theory V. S. Semenov, I. V. KuBysHKIN, A comparison and review of steady-state and time- V. V. Lepepeva, R. P. RUNBEEK, varying reconnection M. F. Heyn. H. K. BieRNAT and C. J. FARRUGIA V. K. Jain and B. SINGH Interpretation of multiple peaks observed in the quiet-time energy spectra ofi nner belt electrons J. HANUMATH Sastri, K. B. RAMESH On the nature of substorm-related transient electric and D. KARUNAKARAN field disturbances in the equatorial ionosphere V. G. Esevevicu and V. G. FAINSHTEIN On the existence of the heliospheric current sheet without a neutral line (HCS without NL) T. K. Breus and A. M. Krymskii Turbulent pick-up of new-born ions near Venus and Mars and problems of numerical modelling of the solar wind interaction with these planets—I. Features of the solar wind interaction with planets T. K. Breus, A. M. Krymskii and Turbulent pick-up of new-born ions near Venus and V. Ya. MITNITSKII Mars and problems of numerical modelling of the solar wind interaction with these planets—II.Two- fluid HD model I. S. Dmitrienko and V. A. Mazur The spatial structure of quasicircular Alfven modes of waveguide at the plasmapause: interpretation of Pcl pulsations Book REviEw CORRIGENDUM FEBRUARY/MARCH SPECIAL ISSUE MARCEL NICOLET, EIGHTY T. Neusert and P. M. Banks 153 Recent results from studies of electron beam phenomena in space plasmas K. Yosuino, J. R. EsMonp, 185 High resolution absorption cross sections in A. S.-C. CHEeuNG, D. E. FREEMAN and the transmission window region of the W. H. PARKINSON Schumann-Runge bands and Herzberg continuum of O, M. Rotu On impulsive penetration of solar wind plasmoids into the geomagnetic field D. J. HOFMANN, E. E. FErGuson, Tropospheric ozone variations in the Arctic during P. V. JOHNSTON and W. A. MATTHEWS January 1990 Contents List D. R. BATEs 211 Nightglow emissions from oxygen in the lower thermosphere D. G. Kinc-HELe 223 The upper atmosphere as sensed by satellite orbits G. G. Sivjee 235 Airglow hydroxyl emissions A. Datcarno, J. F. Bass and Y. Sun 243 Radiative association in planetary atmospheres W. Swiper 247 Sodium chemistry: a brief review and two new mechanisms for sudden sodium layers E. Arus 255 Stratospheric ion chemistry: present understanding and outstanding problems R. G. Rose 271 The polar lower thermosphere M. H. Rees 299 Auroral energy deposition rate C. A. BarTH Nitric oxide in the lower thermosphere J.-C. GERARD Thermospheric odd nitrogen H. RisHBetH and B. S. LANCHESTER Incoherent scatter observations of the E and F regions M. B. McExroy, R. J. SALawitcH and The changing stratosphere K. MINSCHWANER G. P. BRASsEUR Natural and anthropogenic perturbations of the stratospheric ozone layer A.C. Alkin Stratospheric evidence of relativistic electron precipitation APRIL Publisher’s Announcement S. S. SazHin and N. M. TEMME A relativistic theory of the R wave cut-off M. A. GRUNTMAN Anisotropy of the energetic neutral atom flux in the heliosphere A. R. Jacosson and W. C. Erickson Wavenumber-resolved observations of ionospheric waves using the very large array radiotelescope H. LuNDSTEDT Neural networks and predictions of solar-terrestrial effects R. BHARUTHRAM and P. K. SHUKLA Large amplitude double layers in dusty plasmas L. Stenrco and P. K. SHUKLA Generation of radiation by upper-hybrid waves in non-uniform plasmas K. V. Gamayunov, E. N. KrivoruTsky, Saturation of Alfvén oscillations in the ring current A. A. Veryvaev and G. V. KHAZANOV region due to generation of lower hybrid waves R. W. Eastes, R. E. HUFFMAN and NO and O, ultraviolet nightglow and spacecraft F. J. LEBLANC glow from the S3-4 satellite F. W. MENK Characterization of ionospheric Doppler oscillations in the Pc3—4 and Pi2 magnetic pulsation frequency range V. L. Saveviev and E. V. ZHELEZNJAKOV Study of electromagnetic emissive power of moving ionospheric plasma on the basis of universal numerical model constructed on exact expressions J. H. Sastri, H. N. R. Rao and Response of equatorial ionosphere to the transit of K. B. RAMESH interplanetary magnetic cloud of January 13-15, 1967. Transient disturbance in F region Contents List Yu. A. OMELCHENKO, V. I. SOTNIKOVv, 535 Strong Langmuir turbulence and beam-plasma V. D. Suapiro and V. I. SHEVCHENKO discharge in the ionospheric plasma D. Bititza Solar-terrestrial models and application software A. PRiGANCOVA and Ya. I. FELDSTEIN Magnetospheric storm dynamics in terms of energy output rate D. N. Baker, D. H. Fairriecp, Correction to “The substorm event of 28 January J. A. Stavin, I. G. RICHARDSON, 1983: a detailed global study” by D. N. Baker et al. e33 ‘OWEN, J. D. Craven, L. A. FRANK, R.C. Expnic, H. J. Sincer and R. D. Zwicki Book Reviews MAY M. MENpDILLO, X.-Q. He and 595 How the effects of winds and electric fields in F2- H. RIsHBETH layer storms vary with latitude and longitude: a theoretical study J.H. A. Soprar, H. TAKAHASHI, O('S) and O('D) quantum yields from rocket M.A. Appu, P. MURALIKRISHNA, measurements of electron densities and 557.7 and Y. Sanat and C. J. ZAMLUTTI 630.0 nm emissions in the nocturnal F-region S. V. Leontyev, G. V. StarKov, Dayside aurorae and their relation to other V. G. Vorosiev, V. L. Zverev and geophysical phenomena Ya. I. FELDSTEIN R. CROWTHER Re-entry aerodynamics derived from space debris trajectory analysis R. BHARUTHRAM and P. K. SHUKLA Vortices in non-uniform dusty plasmas R. B. Nair, N. BALAN, G. J. BAILEY Spectra of the ac electric fields in the post-sunset and P. B. Rao F-region at the magnetic equator R. J. Morrett, R. A. HEELIs, The temporal evolution of the ionospheric R. SeEvLek and G. J. BAILEY signatures of subauroral ion drifts S. S. Sazuin, H. F. BALMForTH, Modified models of electron distribution in the R. J. Morrett and Y. RippetH magnetosphere at L=2.3 S.S. SazHin and M. HAYAKAWA Magnetospheric chorus emissions: a review R. Link and P. K. SWAMINATHAN N(?D)+0,: a source of thermospheric 6300 A emission? C. T. Russet, J.G . LUHMANN and Limitations of spectral analysis of the Phobos K. SCHWINGENSCHUH magnetometer data in the search for an intrinsic Martian magnetic field M. A. Hapcoop Space physics coordinate transformations: a user guide A. GRAFE Intensity and position of the Martian magnetic dipole, calculated from the observations of the satellite Phobos 2 A. S. Potapov and A phenomenological study of the D, storm variation T..N. PoLYUSHKINA V. A. KOVALENKO and Peculiarities of quasi-periodic variations of large- S. I. MoLopyYKH scale solar magnetic fields and of solar wind properties Book REviEws Contents List JUNE G. J. Baicey and R. SELLEK 751 Field-aligned flows of H* and He* in the mid- latitude topside ionosphere at solar maximum K. E. LONNGREN 763 Velocity modulation of a dusty plasma Y. Sanat, H. TAKAHASHI, 767 Observations of thermospheric neutral winds at P. R. Facunpes, B. R. CLEMESHA, 23°S N. R. Terxerra and J. A. BrITreNcouRT D. Gossi, H. TAKAHASHI, B. R. CLEMESHA Equatorial atomic oxygen profiles derived from and P. P. BATISTA rocket observations of OI 557.7 nm airglow emission M. J. L6pez~GonZALez, Altitude profiles of the atmospheric system of O and J. J. L6pez-Moreno and R. Roprico of the green line emission T. K. Yeoman, M. TIAN, M. LesTER A study of PcS hydromagnetic waves with and T. B. Jones equatorward phase propagation B. PoPiELAWSKA Components of the 11- and 22-year variation of cosmic rays G. G. Bowman Some aspects of large-scale travelling ionospheric disturbances C. J. Brookes Variation in eccentricity for the orbit of Cosmos 373, 1970-874 O. A. Gorsacuev, G. V. KHAZANOV, A theoretical model for the ring current interaction K. V. GAMayunov and with the Earth’s plasmasphere E. N. KrivoRuTSKY P. CHAUHAN and B. SinGH High dispersion whistlers observed at Agra station (L=1.15) M. I. Pupovkin, S. A. ZAITSEVA, Dynamics of aurorae in the cusp region and P. E. SANDHOLT and A. EGELAND characteristics of magnetic reconnection at the magnetopause Book Review ERRATUM JULY D. R. BATES 893 Emission of forbidden red and green lines of atomic oxygen from the nocturnal F region K. R. SvENEs, B. N. MAEHLUM, J. Troi, 901 Combined rocket and ground observations of electron G. HOLMGREN, R. L. ARNOLDY, heating in the ionospheric F-layer U. P. Lovuaua, M. T. RIETVELD and C. HALL M. J. LOpez-GONZALEZ, J. J. LOPEZ-MORENO Altitude and vibrational distribution of the O, ultra- and R. RopRIGO violet nightglow emissions M. J. Lopez-GonzALez, J. J. LOPEZ-MORENO Atomic oxygen concentrations from airglow measure- and R. RopDRIGO ments of atomic and molecular oxygen emissions in the nightglow V. V. DENISENKO and S. S. ZAMAY Electric field in the equatorial ionosphere G. CuisHaM, D. Orr and T. K. YEOMAN Observations of a giant pulsation across an extended array of ground magnetometers and on auroral radar P. R. SUTCLIFFE Amplitude modulation in ionospheric signatures of ULF pulsations R. BHARUTHRAM and P. K. SHUKLA Large amplitude ion-acoustic solitons in a dusty plasma Contents List F. MARCZ 979 Geomagnetic, ionospheric and cosmic ray variations around the passages of different magnetic clouds S. S. SAZHIN 985 The propagation of damped or growing whistler-mode waves P. FICHET, J. R. JEvAis, C.C AMY-PEYRET 989 NLTE processes in ozone: importance of O and O, and J. M. FLAuD densities near the mesopause H. RISHBETH and R. G. RoBLE Cooling of the upper atmosphere by enhanced green- house gases—modelling of thermospheric and iono- spheric effects Book REVIEW CORRIGENDUM AUGUST ANNOUNCEMENT 1031 A. M. KryMskil, T. K. BREus, 1033 The electromagnetic effects of the solar wind inter- M. K. DouGHerty, D. J. SouTHWooD action with the Phobos neutral gas halo and dust torus and W. I. AxForD Y. Saito, S. MACHIDA, M. HIRAHARA, Rocket observation ofe lectron fluxes over a pulsating T. Mukai and H. MiyAoKa aurora R. V. Reppy, G. S. LAKHINA and lon-acoustic double layers and solitons in multispecies F. VERHEEST auroral beam-plasmas V. FIALA, R. POTTELETTE, N. DUBOULOZ Ponderomotive force effects in the vicinity of a radio- and H. DE FERAUDY frequency probe in a plasma M. I. PUDOVKIN and V. E. ZAKHAROV Numerical siniulations of magnetosphere—ionosphere coupling, including kinetic effects in the plasma sheet M. HAYAKAWA, S. SHIMAKURA, A study of polarization of irregular pulsations of T. KOBAYASHI and N. Sato diminishing period and their generation mechanism L. A. HAJKOWICZ Universal time effect in the occurrences of large-scale ionospheric disturbances G. F. REMENETS and M. I. BELOGLAZOV Dynamics of an auroral iow ionospheric fringe at geo- physical disturbances on 29 September 1989 K. NAGASHIMA, K. FUJIMOTO, Local-time-dependent pre-IMF-shock decrease and S. SAKAKIBARA, I. MorISHITA and post-shock increase of cosmic rays, produced respec- R. TATSUOKA tively by their IMF-collimated outward and inward flows across the shock responsible for Forbush decrease L. G. BRUSKIN and G. V. KHAZANOV 1139 An analytic model of the neutral cloud evolution in the Earth’s atmosphere R. R. MEIER, U. FELDMAN, C. M. BROWN 1153 Absolute O and O, concentrations in the thermosphere and J. M. PICONE from SKYLAB occultation data L. BERGAMASCO, M. SERIO, 1167 The relationship between the sidereal variation at G. Cint CASTAGNOLI, V. A. KUDRYAVTSEV, 570 hg/cm? underground and different levels of solar V. A. KuZzNETSov and O. RYAZHSKAYA activity Contents List SEPTEMBER ANNOUNCEMENT 1183 A. I. SUKHORUKOV, S. SHIMAKURA 1185 On the additional dispersion of a whistler in the and M. HAYAKAWA Earth—ionosphere waveguide M. Hayakawa and K. OHTA 1193 On the L-dependence of whistler-triggered emissions as based on the measurement at Ceduna, Australia (L=1.93) C. B. Dwivepi and A. C. Das Neutral induced low frequency instability in a weakly ionized magnetized plasma G. Le and C. T. RUSSELL A study of ULF wave foreshock morphology—I: ULF foreshock boundary G. Le and C. T. Russewt A study of ULF wave foreshock morphology—ll: spatial variation of ULF waves H. S. AHLUWALIA Cosmic ray modulation near the onset and maximum phases of solar activity cycle 22 V. P. PAVLENKO and L. STENFLO The Alfvén vortex turbulence spectrum K. MINSCHWANER and M. B. McELRoy A model for the energy budget of the atmosphere: comparison with data from the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment M. F. Smith, M. Lockwoop and The statistical cusp: a flux transfer event model S. W. H. CowLey K. K Kita, N. IwaGami and T. OGAWA Rocket observations of oxygen night airglows: ex- citation mechanisms and oxygen atom concentration P. Ficuet, J. R. JEvais, C.C AMY-PEYRET Calculation of NLTE ozone infrared spectra and J.M . FLAUD Book REVIEW OCTOBER ANNOUNCEMENT 1301 ). 1. YAGODKINA, V. G. VOROBJEV, 1303 Bursts of geomagnetic pulsations and their relationship 5. V. LEontiEv, P. E. SANDHOLT and with dayside auroral forms . EGELAND 1. I. KOMLE, G. STEINER, Temperature evolution and vapour pressure build-up <. J. SEIDENSTICKER, H. KOCHAN, in porous ices Tuomas, K. THIEL, M. BAGUHL and . HOPPNER . HAYAKAWA and S. S. SAZHIN Mid-latitude and plasmaspheric hiss: a review . HAYAKAWA and K. OHTA The propagation of low-latitude whistlers: a review M. HAYAKAWA, S. SHIMAKURA, Statistical characteristics of the polarization of Pcl ’. KOBAYASHI and N. SATO micropulsations at high latitudes A. |. SUKHORUKOV, S. SHIMAKURA Approximate solution for the VLF eigenvalues near and M. HAYAKAWA cut-off frequencies in the nocturnal inhomogeneous Earth-ionosphere waveguide P. PrRikryYL, D. ANpreE, J. A. KOEHLER, Type 4 VHF radio aurora observations during low to G. J. SorKo, J.-P. St.-MAURICE, moderate geomagnetic activity D. D. WALLIs and F. CREUTZBERG M. J. LOpEZ-~GONZALEZ, The altitude profile of the Infrared Atmospheric System J. J. Lopez-Moreno and R. RopriGo of O, in twilight and early night: derivation of ozone abundances Vili Contents List U. VILLANTE, S. Lepipi, M. VELLANTE, 1399 Pc3 activity at low geomagnetic latitudes: a comparison A. J. Lazarus and R. P. LeppinG with solar wind observations LALMANI, A. AHMAD and M. M. AHMAD 1409 lonosphere—plasmasphere coupling e¢lectron fluxes from low latitude whistler studies at Nainital during geomagnetic storm K. L. BELL and R. P. STAFFORD Photoionization cross-sections for atomic oxygen D. P. SinGH, U. P. SINGH and Intensity peaks in low latitude VLF emissions ob- R. P. SINGH served at Ariel satellites M. A. Hapcoop and D. A. BRYANT Exploring the magnetospheric boundary layer 1. F. GRANT and K. D. CoLe The height dependence of the perturbation of the mid- latitude F-region by Pi2 pulsations F. VERHEEST and P. K. KAw Quasilinear theory of non-resonant electromagnetic instabilities Book REVIEW NOVEMBER ANNOUNCEMENT 1485 W. JONES 1487 The application of the WKB approximation to the calculation of the scattering of radio waves from overdense meteor trains A. C. Das and W.-H. Ip Particle acceleration by kinetic Alfvén waves in the lo plasma torus B. V. KozeLov and V. E. IVANOV Monte Carlo calculation of proton—hydrogen atom transport in N> S.-I. AKAsorFu, C.-I]. MENG and Changes oft he size of the open field line region during K. MAKITA substorms S. BLEszyYNskI1, S. GRZEDZIELSKI, Expected fluxes of ~1 keV neutral H atoms in inter- D. Rucinski and J. JAKIMIEC planetary space; comparison with the u.v. background and possibility of detection L. Gan and T. E. CRAVENS Electron impact cross-sections and cooling rates for methane Y. SAHAI, H. TAKAHASHI, N. R. TELXEIRA, Observations of thermospheric temperatures at 23°S P. R. FAGUNDES, B. R. CLEMESHA and J. A. BITTENCOURT V. A. SERGEEV, R. C. ELpuic, F. S. MOZER, A two-satellite study of nightside flux transfer events A. SaAInt-Marc and J. A. SAUVAUD in the plasma sheet W. L. MorGaANn and D. R. BATES Stratospheric heavy ozone: the symmetric isomer Short Communication R. GODARD Comments on “Recent results from studies of elec- tronic beam phenomena in space plasmas” by T. Neubert and P. M. Banks Contents List DECEMBER SPECIAL ISSUE IN HONOUR OF SIR DAVID BATES A. DALGARNO 1583 David Robert Bates—an appreciation K. MINSCHWANER and M. B. McELRoy 1585 Radiative constraints on the energy budget of the tropical atmosphere P. B. Hays and the HRDI Sci—eNcE TEAM 1599 Remote sensing of mesospheric winds with the High- Resolution Doppler Imager D. M. HUNTEN 1607 The equilibrium of atmospheric sodium W. B. HANSON and F. S. JOHNSON 1615 Lower midlatitude ionospheric disturbances and the Perkins instability R. J. MorrettG,. J. BAILEY and 1631 Effects of greatly increased O loss in the ionospheric B. JENKINS F-region @. Lie-SvENDSEN, M. H. REEs and 1639 Helium escape from the Earth’s atmosphere: the charge K. STAMNES exchange mechanism revisited J. L. Fox 1663 Chemistry of the nightside ionosphere of Venus D. A. WILLIAMS 1683 The chemistry of interstellar CH’: the contribution of Bates and Spitzer (1951) R. A. Dresser, R. H. SALTER and 1695 Dynamics of the O'+H,O charge-transfer reaction E. MuRAD and its implications for space-borne measurements V. EscaLANTE and G. A. VicToR 1705 Effective radiative recombination coefficients of atomic oxygen M. J. JAMIESON, M. FINCH, 1719 Collisional excitation of metastable oxygen O('D) R. S. FRIEDMAN and A. DALGARNO atoms through the B°Z,, channel of O, ANNOUNCEMENT