Dusty and Dirty Plasmas, Noise, and Chaos in Space and in the Laboratory

Introduction (H. Kikuchi). Cosmic Dusty Plasmas: Plasma Tail and Dust Tail of Comets (T. Saito et al.). Laboratory Dusty Plasmas: Theory and Experiment: Coherent Structures in Lowtemperature Dusty Plasmas (P.K. Shukla, N.N. Rao). Meteorologicoelectric Environment and EHD: The Mechanism of Electrohydrodynamic Wind Generation in a Lower Atmosphere (A. Watson, J.S. Chang). Selforganization and Turbulence: Selforganization Processes in Turbulent Atmosphere and Methods for Their Study (A.A. Lazarev, S.S. Moiseev). Lightning Discharges and Laboratory Simulation: A New Model Lightning (J.W. Warwick). Atmospheric Electricity and Noise: Jet Stream Electrodynamics (T. Ogawa). Magnetospheric Noise and Pulsations: Local Time Dependence of Wave Characteristics of Pi2 Pulsations Observed at Synchronous Orbit (H. Takeuchi et al.). Planetary and Solar Noise and Plasmas: Nonauroral Lights on Jupiter‘s Dark Side (J.W. Warwick). Galactic Noise and Plasmas: A Systematic Study of Dense Cloud Cores and Star Formation (A. Mizuno, Y. Fukui). Fluctuations, Chaos, Reconnection, and Acceleration. Ball Lightning and Microwave Discharges. 40 additional articles. Index.