Research Programmes at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics:
- Polar Atmospheric Research (PAF) with personnel located in Kiruna
- Conducts experimental research into processes affecting the Arctic middle-atmosphere, which includes the cold polar vortex of the dark stratospheric winter and the even colder, permanently daylit mesopause of summer.
- Solar Terrestrial Physics (STP) with personnel located in Kiruna, Umeå, Uppsala and Lund
- Researches aspects of the sun, the solar corona and the space environment, including the solar wind’s interaction with satellites, the Earth and its magnetosphere; studies the principles and mechanisms which control Earth’s interaction with its space habitat by using the near-space environment of the Earth as a large outdoor laboratory without walls to conduct research into fundamental physical processes in space.
- Solar System Physics and Space Technology (SSPT) with personnel located in Kiruna
- Studies the interaction of the solar wind with planets, asteroids and comets, their atmospheres and magnetospheres, as well as researching magnetospheres round other astrophysical objects (stars and galaxies).
- Space Plasma Physics (RPF) with personnel located in Uppsala
- Conducts research into magnetospheres and dynamic processes in space plasma.
Doctoral and other theses:
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