ESS415/515:
Space and Space Plasmas
Lecture Notes:
Lecture 1:
Introduction to Magnetospheres (pdf)
Lecture 3:
Space Weather Hazards (pdf)
Lecture 5:
Dynamos and the Earth's magnetic field (pdf)
Lecture 5:
Dynamo Movie [Glatzmaier and Roberts] (mpeg)
Lecture 7:
Inner Magnetosphere (pdf)
Lecture 10:
Current Systems (pdf)
Lecture 11a:
The Sun (pdf)
Lecture 11b:
The Heliosphere (pdf)
Lecture 13a:
Substorms and the Aurora (pdf)
Lecture 13b:
Storms (pdf)
Lecture 14:
The solar wind interaction with Mars (pdf)
Lecture 15:
Jupiter and Io (abbreviated) (pdf)