Seventy years of the Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Waves Propagation (IZMIRAN) (Scientific session of the Physical Sciences Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 25 November 2009)
A scientific session of the Physical Sciences Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IZMIRAN) (Troitsk, Moscow region)
was held in the conference hall of IZMIRAN on 25 November 2009.
The following reports were put on the session agenda posted on the web site www.gpad.ac.ru of the Physical Sciences Division, RAS:
- Gurevich A V (Lebedev Physical Institute RAS, Moscow) “The role of cosmic rays and runaway electron breakdown in atmospheric lightning discharges”;
- Aleksandrov E B ( Ioffe Physical Technical Institute, RAS, St. Petersburg) “Advances in quantum magnetometry for geomagnetic research”;
- Dorman L I (IZMIRAN, Troitsk, Moscow region, CR & SWC, Israel) “Cosmic ray variations and space weather”;
- Mareev E A (Institute of Applied Physics, RAS, Nizhnii Novgorod) “Global electric circuit research: achievements and prospects”;
- Tereshchenko E D, Safargaleev V V (Polar Geophysical Institute, Kola Research Center, RAS, Murmansk) “Geophysical research in Spitsbergen Archipelago: status
and prospects”;
- Gulyaev Yu V, Armand N A, Efimov A I, Matyugov S S, Pavelyev A G, Savich N A, Samoznaev L N, Smirnov V V, Yakovlev O I (Kotel’nikov Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics RAS, Fryazino Branch, Fryazino, Moscow
region) “Results of solar wind and planetary ionosphere research using radiophysical methods”;
- Kunitsyn V E (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow) “Satellite radio probing and the radio tomography of the ionosphere”;
- Kuznetsov V D (IZMIRAN, Troitsk, Moscow region) “Space Research at the Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation,
Russian Academy of Sciences.”
Papers based on reports 2 — 8 are published below. The main contents of report 1 are reproduced in A V Gurevich’s review, “Nonlinear effects in the ionosphere” [Phys. Usp. 50 1091 (2007)] and in the paper by A V Gurevich et al., “Nonlinear phenomena in the ionospheric plasma. Effects of cosmic rays and runaway breakdown on thunderstorm discharges” [Phys. Usp. 52 735 (2009)].
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