Geophysical plasmas and atmospheric modeling

Contents: Collisionless Tearing Instability in a Non-Mexwellian Neutral Sheet: An Integro-Differential Formulation; Nonlocal Effects on the Convective Properties of the Electrostatic Current-Driven Ion-Cyclotron Instability; Two Dimensional Nonlocal Formalism for Electrostatic Waves in the Magnetosphere; The Role of Nonlocalities in Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling Processes; O(+) Acceleration Due to Resistive Momentum Transfer in the Auroral Field Line Plasma; Behavior of Ionized Plasma in the High Latitude Topside Ionosphere; Stabilization of the Collisional Current-Driven Ion Cyclotron Instability; Production and Control of Ion Cyclotron Instabilities in the High Latitude Ionosphere by High Power Radio Waves; Effects of Finite Current Channel Width on the Current Convective Instability; Ionospheric Turbulence: Interchange Instabilitiies and Chaotic Fluid Behavior; Estimating Spectral Indices from Transforms of Discrete Representations of Density Functions; Projections of Plasma Structures and Their Spectra; The Role of Finite Parallel Length on the Stability of Barium Clouds; Finite Temperature Stabilization of the Gradient Drift Instability in Barium Clouds; Finite Temperature Effects on the Evolution of Ionospheric Barium Clouds in the Presence of a Conducting Background Ionosphere I. A High Altitude Incompressible Background Ionosphere; and A Three Dimensional Model of the Summer Monsoon.