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    <div><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
        Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">The Sun-Earth interaction leads to
        a variety of asymmetric effects in geospace. In the ionosphere
        these appear, for example, as dawn-dusk asymmetries and
        inter-hemispheric asymmetries and in the magnetosphere they can
        be observed, for example,  as warping of the plasma sheet,
        asymmetric loading of flux in the lobes, and in ion outflow.
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      <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:
        11pt;">Known causes  of asymmetries include the orientation of
        the interplanetary magnetic field, the tilt angle of the Earth,
        solar irradiation, variations in magnetic field strength, and
        disparities in neutral wind forcing from below.  As the state of
        geospace is a result of all these various factors, the most
        common state of geospace is indeed asymmetric.</span><br>
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      <span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span><span style="font-family:
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        for a papers exploring geospace in order to make progress in our
        understanding of the physical processes responsible for creating
        the asymmetric geospace. We welcome studies using observations,
        statistical techniques, as well as MHD modeling, simulations and
        theoretical considerations.</span><br>
      <span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span><span style="font-family:
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        dynamics and asymmetries from other planets are also welcome.</span></div>
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      Rumi</span>
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