Ion acceleration in the magnetosphere and ionosphere; Proceedings of the Chapman Conference on Ion Acceleration in the Magnetosphere, Wellesley College, MA, June 3-7, 1985

Theoretical, experimental, and observational investigations of magnetospheric ion-acceleration processes (IAPs) are presented in reviews and reports. Topics examined include high-latitude, plasma-sheet, boundary-layer, equatorial-region, active, laboratory, microscopic, and macroscopic IAPs. Consideration is given to observations of coherent transverse IAPs, transverse and parallel acceleration of terrestrial ions at high latitudes, interaction of H(+) and O(+) beams at 2 and 3 earth radii, eigenfunction methods in the theory of magnetospheric radial diffusion, wave-particle-interaction IAPs, IAPs in expanding ionospheric plasmas, and impulsive IAPs in the outer magnetosphere