An AGU Chapman Conference on Solar Wind‐Magnetosphere Coupling was held at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, February 12–15, 1985. There were 95 scientific papers presented at the meeting, and 135 participants were registered. The interaction between the solar wind and the earth's magnetic field creates a large magnetic cavity that is termed the magnetosphere. Energy derived from the solar wind and subsequently transferred to the inner magnetosphere is the primary source of various dynamic processes in the magnetosphere and also of many interesting phenomena observable from the earth's surface, such as magnetic and auroral substorms. The purpose of this conference was to bring together scientists from all areas of solar terrestrial physics, both theoretical and experimental, to promote the study of “coupling” among the different regions of the geosphere.
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Kamide et al. (1985) studied this question.