Papers of

NATO workshop

Organized by

Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Technical University of
Košice, Slovak Republic

Faculty of Science, P.J. Safarik University, Košice, Slovak Republic

Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences,
Košice, Slovak Republic

Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Guest Editors

Jana Šafránková and Zdeněk Němeček

Preface

This special issue of Czechoslovak Journal of Physics (Vol. 49, No. 4a, 1999) contains the papers presented at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop entitled "Coordinated Studies of the Solar Wind-Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Interaction: INTERBALL Observations". The workshop was held in Košice, Slovakia from September 7 to 11, 1998.

The aim of the meeting was to emphasize the importance of multispacecraft observations in determining the physics of the Solar-Terrestrial relationship and to introduce the international INTERBALL project to the scientific community. The meeting was jointly organized by Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Technical University of Košice, Faculty of Science, P.J. Safarik University, and Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia, and Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. It was sponsored by NATO grant 972801. The scientific program was organized by D.G. Sibeck and K. Kudela.

During four busy days, there were 79 presentations of which 26 were invited lectures and the rest, posters. Invited papers will be published in a Kluwer publication entitled "INTERBALL and ISTP", and 15 papers were accepted for publication this volume.

In closing we would like to thank the referees who worked so hard at the meeting and afterward to review the papers, and thus permitted the timely production of this volume. Last but not least, we would like to thank our own staff, in particular Lubomír Přech, Ondřej Santolík, Jan Měrka and Marcela Králíková who assisted in the preparation of the papers for publication.

J. Šafránková, Z. Němeček

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