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Title Handbook of the solar-terrestrial environment / Yohsuke Kamide, Abraham C.-L. Chian (eds.)
Published Berlin ; New York : Springer, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 539 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Contents An Overview of the Solar-Terrestrial Environment -- An Overview of the Solar-Terrestrial Environment -- The Sun -- The Solar Interior -- Radial Structure, Rotation, Solar Activity Cycle -- Solar Atmosphere -- Solar Wind -- Coronal Mass Ejection -- Solar Radio Emissions -- The Earth -- Magnetosphere -- Ionosphere -- Thermosphere -- Space Plasmas -- Space Plasmas -- Magnetic Reconnection -- Nonlinear Processes in Space Plasmas -- Processes in the Solar-Terrestrial Environment -- The Aurora -- Geomagnetic Storms -- Substorms -- Ultra Low Frequency Waves in the Magnetosphere -- Space Weather -- Effects of the Solar Cycle on the Earth's Atmosphere -- Planets and Comets in the Solar System -- Planetary Magnetospheres -- The Solar-Comet Interactions
Summary The Handbook of the Solar-Terrestrial Environment is a unique compendium. Recognized international leaders in their field contribute chapters on basic topics of solar physics, space plasmas and the Earth's magnetosphere, and on applied topics like the aurora, magnetospheric storms, space weather, space climatology and planetary science
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
In Springer e-books
Subject Upper atmosphere
Ionosphere
Magnetosphere.
Atmospheric physics.
Solar-terrestrial physics.
Astrophysics.
Physical geography.
astrophysics.
physical geography.
SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Meteorology & Climatology.
Ionosphere.
Magnetosphere.
Atmospheric physics.
Solar-terrestrial physics.
Atmosphere, Upper.
Physique.
Upper atmosphere
Atmospheric physics
Ionosphere
Magnetosphere
Solar-terrestrial physics
Form Electronic book
Author Kamide, Y. (Yōsuke), 1943-2021.
Chian, Abraham C.-L
LC no. 2007922927
ISBN 9783540463153
3540463151
9783540463146
3540463143
1281043257
9781281043252