Edited by Georgios Balasis, Senior Researcher, National Observatory of Athens, Greece, Ioannis A. Daglis, Professor, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and Ian R. Mann, Professor, University of Alberta, Canada

Georgios Balasis is a senior researcher of the Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing (IAASARS) at the National Observatory of Athens (NOA), Greece. He received a BSc in Physics from the of University of Athens (Greece), followed by an MSc in Geophysics from the University of Edinburgh (UK), an MSc in Condensed Matter Physics and a PhD in Applied Electromagnetism both from the University of Athens. From 2002 to 2006 he was the specialist for global electromagnetic induction in the CHAMP satellite team at GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (Germany). Dr. Balasis continues to be involved in magnetic satellite missions, in particular as member of the Validation Team of the Swarm satellite mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) and principal investigator of the Swarm Mission Science Exploration. His primary interest lies in Space Physics, with a focus on the dynamics of the magnetosphere and space weather forecasting.

Ioannis A. Daglis is a professor in the Department of Physics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. Before his appointment at the University of Athens, he was the Director of the Institute for Space Applications and Remote Sensing for six years (2006-2012) and the Director of the Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing for one year (2012-2013). His scientific expertise pertains to solar system astrophysics and space applications. Prof. Daglis graduated from the Physics Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He worked on his PhD in Space Plasma Electrodynamics at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (Germany) and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (USA) under the supervision of the late Prof. Sir W. Ian Axford.

Ian R. Mann is a professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Alberta, Canada, and was a Canada Research Chair in Space Physics from 2003-13. His research specialises in the study of the impacts of the sun on near-Earth space, including being an expert in the study of ultra-low frequency plasma waves and their impacts on energetic particle dynamics, including on the radiation belts, ring current, as well as and energy transport in the coupled geospace system and in relation to the generation of the aurora. He obtained his PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of St. Andrews U.K., following receipt of a degree in Physics with Astrophysics from the University of Birmingham, U.K. He worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of London, U.K., and the University of Alberta, Canada, and was awarded a UK NSERC Post-Doctoral Fellowship. He worked as a Lecturer at the University of York, U.K. from before joining the faculty at the University of Alberta, Canada.

Monika Andersson, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland
Vassilis Angelopoulos, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, University of California, USA
Daniel N. Baker, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Georgios Balasis, Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing, National Observatory of Athens, Greece
Jacob Bortnik, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
Sebastien Bourdarie, DESP, ONERA The French Aerospace Lab, France
Mark Clilverd, British Antarctic Survey (NERC), Cambridge, UK
Ioannis A. Daglis, Department of Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Yusuke Ebihara, Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto University, Japan
Scot Elkington, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Spacy Physics, University of Colorado, USA
Sarah Glauert, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK
Richard Horne, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK
George Hospodarsky, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, USA
Vania K. Jordanova, Space Science and Applications Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
Ryuho Kataoka, National Institute of Polar Research, Japan
Tobias Kersten, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK
Ramona Kessel, Heliophysics Division of the Science Mission Directorate, NASA HQ, Washington, DC, USA
Craig Kletzing, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Iowa, USA
Norbert Krupp, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Germany
Wen Li, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
Michael Liemohn, University of Michigan, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, USA
Ian R. Mann, Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Canada
Frederick Menk, Centre for Space Physics, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Newcastle, Australia
Nigel Meredith, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK
Yoshizumi Miyoshi, Institute for Space-Earth Environment Research, Nagoya University, Japan
Thomas Paul O'Brien, Space Sciences Department/Chantilly, The Aerospace Corporation, USA
Constantinos Papadimitriou, Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing, National Observatory of Athens, Greece
Chris Paranicas, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, USA
Viacheslav Pilipenko, Space Research Institute, Russia
Geoffrey D. Reeves, Space Science and Applications Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
Craig Rodger, Department of Physics, University of Otago, New Zealand
Elias Roussos, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Germany
Ondrej Santolik, Institute of Atmospheric Physics ASCR, Czech Republic
Theodore Sarris, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Annika Seppälä, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland
Yuri Y. Shprits, Section 2.3: Earth's Magnetic Field, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Germany
Angelica Sicard, Onera, France
Harlan E. Spence, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire, USA
Kazue Takahashi, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, USA
Xin Tao, Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, PR China
Richard Thorne, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
Drew Turner, Space Sciences Department, The Aerospace Corporation, USA
Maria Usanova, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Pekka Verronen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland
Colin Waters, Centre for Space Physics, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Newcastle, Australia
Eftyhia Zesta, Heliophysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA

"Virtually all discussions in this advanced reference book are academic but subjects of practical concern and interest such as the consequences of space weather, solar wind, geomagnetic storms and substorms... are incorporated in many of the chapters." - B. Ishak, Contemporary Physics

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