I wish to
extend my warmest thanks to everyone who has in any way helped me
with preparing and nishing this work and encouraged me along the way.
I want to thank, rst of all, Dr.
Jean-André Sauvaud from C.E.S.R., Toulouse, France,
for providing me with opportunity to learn from him, and for oering
me an access to the Interball ELECTRON data. My thesis adviser, Dr.
Barbara Popielawska, for her helpful comments and big
patience, when I was extending my deadline. I have held helpful
discussions on the magnetospheric physics with Christian Jacquey
from C.E.S.R., Toulouse and with Ela
Wodnicka, SRC Warszawa. I am also very thankful to the
whole group
working, under guidance of J.-A.
Sauvaud, on the ELECTRON experiment. Thanks also for the data
processing to J. Durand
(CNES, Toulouse) and E. Penou (C.E.S.R.). Dr.
S. Romanov (SRI, Moscow, Russia) for the magnetic data-
without the MIF-M instrument I would certainly have nothing to do.
Dr. Józef Juchniewicz,
Space Research Center, Warszawa for various kinds of support and Dr.
Lech Kru±, System Research Institute PAS and
Hewlett-Packard Education group in Warszawa for the opportunities to
nd the additional source of nances. This work would not even start
without the geophysical data I was using to support the observations
from Interball.
The list of the institutes and of the individuals I
wish to acknowledge is put below. The list of individuals, that I
wish to acknowledge is very long; I keep it in my heart and in
memory, often accompanied with love. Of course, colleagues from the
laboratories in Toulouse and in Warszawa, but also friends, who come
from backgrounds other than physics: Majka
Shephard has helped me with some English (but still all
the errors being my fault), Piotr
Malec, Anka Salwa,
Ula Styczek, have
oered me their time and friendship and with Krysia
Hulewicz we have talking a lot on energy. There are two
special ladies I want to thank, keeping them in my memory and in my
heart: Ula Orªowska
and Marta Wachowicz.
I also thank my Mother
and my Brother for
everything. I wish also to thank His
Holiness XIV Dalai Lama of Tibet for the sense of
support when I was working upon my thesis, and to wish Him all the
best. Similarly, I keep warm thougths for Pope
John Paul II for the lessons He gave us in His last days.
Finally, I want to acknowledge: Prof
G. Parks for the data from WIND; Los Alamos National
Laboratory (Dr. R. Belian)
for the SOPA instrument data; Dr.
Partick Newell at JHU APL for the usefull comments
on the DMSP data. Canadian Space Agency for the magnetic and the
optical data from CANOPUS chain of observatories (especially Dr.
Fokke Creutzberg for the usefull and encouraging
comments); Danish Meteorological Institute (in particular Dr.
J. Watermann) and Space Physics Research Laboratory at the
University of Michigan (Dr. R.
Clauer) for the magnetic data from Greenland; Prof.
K. Yumoto from STEL, Nagoya, Japan, for the magnetic data
from MM210 magnetometer chain; National Institute for Polar Research,
Japan (Dr. Akira Kadokura)
for the magnetic data from Iceland and Syowa station; Dr.
J.J.Schott from EOST, Université de Strasbourg,
France, for the magnetic data from Port Aux Francais; the institutes
who maintain the IMAGE network
for the magnetic data; SAMNET,
the PPARC facility deployed by the University of York UK for the
magnetic data. I also would like to thank everyone
providing the Internet global data services, in particular World
Data Centers, NSSDC,
SPIDR.
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