Call number:
5/M 09.0139
Description / Table of Contents:
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 Earths magnetosphere, and on applied topics like the aurora, magnetospheric storms, space weather, space climatology and planetary science.This book will be of highest value as a reference for researchers working in the area of planetary and space science.The Solar-Terrestrial Environment.- The Solar Interior: Radial Structure, Rotation, Solar Activity Cycle.- The Solar Atmosphere.- How the Corona of the Sun becomes the Solar Wind.- Magnetosphere.- Ionosphere.- Thermosphere.- Space Plasmas.- Reconnection in the Earths Magnetosphere.- Nonlinear Processes in Space Plasmas.- Coronal Mass Ejections.- Solar Radio Emissions.- The Aurora.- Substorms.- Geomagnetic Storms.- Magnetic Pulsations.- Space Weather.- Effects of the 11-year Sunspot Cycle on the Earths Atmospere.- Planetary Magnetospheres.- The Solar-Comet Interaction.
Type of Medium:
Monograph available for loan
Pages:
XIV, 539 S.
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Ill., graph. Darst.
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242 mm x 193 mm
ISBN:
3540463143
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978-3-540-46314-6
Classification:
Geomagnetism, Geoelectromagnetism
Location:
Reading room
Branch Library:
GFZ Library
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