Università Roma Tre

Giving fundamental knowledge on the physics of ionospheric plasma and its instabilities through a description of the structure, composition and formation of the ionosphere, as well as of the main dynamics present in this transition zone. One of the objectives is to give the student the tools to enable him to carry out an analysis on the effects of solar ultraviolet radiation and the precipitation of magnetospheric particles in the broader framework of the study of the lithosphere-atmosphere-ionosphere-magnetosphere interactions. Giving fundamental knowledge on the physics of magnetospheric, perturbative and non-perturbative processes, through the study of earth-sun interactions, of the particles trapped in the Van Allen belts and of their interactions with the residual atmosphere.