Kristian Birkeland : the man and the scientist / Sydney Chapman and his early studies of magnetic disturbances / The evolution of arguments regarding the existence of field-aligned currents / The magnetospheric currents : an introduction / Introduction to the topology of magnetospheric current systems / Fundamentals of current description / Estimation of electric fields and currents from ground-based magnetometer data / Electric fields and currents associated with active aurora / Polar cap current systems / Relationships between field-aligned currents, electric fields, and particle precipitation as observed by dynamics explorer-2 / A study of high latitude current systems during quiet geomagnetic conditions using magsat data / Field-aligned currents during northward IMF / Three-dimensional Birkeland-ionospheric current system, determined from MAGSAT / Variation of the auroral Birkeland current pattern associated with the north-south component of the IMF / Distribution of aurora and ionospheric currents observed simultaneously on a global scale / Currents in the earth's magnetotail / Characteristics of the cross-tail current in the earth's magnetotail / Field-aligned currents near the magnetosphere boundary / Models of auroral-zone conductances / Coordinated ground and satellite observations of conductivities, electric fields, and field-aligned currents / Magnetospheric dynamo processes / Magnetospheric topology of fields and currents / A new theory of sources of Birkeland currents ; Dielectric and permeability effects in collisionless plasmas / Field-aligned current sheets as tangential and rotational discontinuities / Electrodynamics of convection in the inner magnetosphere / Coupling of Birkeland current rings / Region one Birkeland currents connecting to sunward convecting flux tubes / Corrected geomagnetic coordinates for Epoch 1980 / High-latitude field-aligned currents patterns in connection with magnetospheric structure / Electric fields and currents observed by S3-2 in the vicinity of discrete arcs / Association of field-aligned currents with small-scale auroral phenomena / Three-dimensional potential structure associated with Birkeland currents / The role of currents in plasma redistribution / The role of field-aligned current filaments in generating morning sector PI 1 pulsations at sub-auroral latitudes / Rotationally-induced Birkeland current systems / Dynamics of field-aligned current sources at Earth and Jupiter / Alv Egeland -- Masahisa Sugiura -- A.J. Dessler -- S.-I. Akasofu -- W.P. Olson -- Vytenis M. Vasyliunas -- Y. Kamide and A.D. Richmond -- W. Baumjohann and H.J. Opgenoorth -- E. Friis-Christensen -- M. Sugiura -- J.R. Burrows, T.J. Hughes, and Margaret D. Wilson -- Takesi Iijima / L.J. Zanetti [and others] -- P.F. Bythrow, T.A. Potemra, and L.J. Zanetti -- J.D. Craven [and others] -- L.A. Frank, C.Y. Huang, and T.E. Eastman -- A.T.Y. Lui -- Edward W. Hones, Jr. -- Patricia H. Reiff -- R.M. Robinson -- David P. Stern -- Walter J. Heikkila -- K.D. Cole -- G. Atkinson -- R.W. Spiro and R.A. Wolf -- G.L. Siscoe and N.U. Crooker -- J.L. Karty, R.A. Wolf, and R.W. Spiro -- Georg Gustafsson -- Y.I. Feldstein [and others] -- William J. Burke -- Cynthia Cattell -- Lars Block -- G. Atkinson -- M.J. Engebretson [and others] -- T.W. Hill -- D.D. Barbosa.
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