Overview

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. This book will be of highest value as a reference for researchers working in the area of planetary and space science. However, it is also written in a style accessible to graduate students majoring in those fields.

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Author:   Yohsuke Kamide ,  Abraham C.-L. Chian
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2007
Dimensions:   Width: 19.30cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   1.075kg
ISBN:  

9783642079689

ISBN 10:   3642079687
Pages:   539
Publication Date:   05 November 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of print, replaced by POD  
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Table of 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.

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From the reviews: The book is a solid, comprehensive ! text providing a full overview of solar-terrestrial science, pitched at the graduate student level. The book provides an excellent summary of the underlying physics controlling Sun-Earth connections, and it certainly merits a place on the bookshelf of an academic working in the field. ! is worthwhile for working solar-terrestrial physicists ! . If you are an ambitious graduate student and have decided you want to make a career in solar-terrestrial physics, then you might consider it ! . (Andy Breen, EOS, Vol. 90 (11), March, 2009)

From the reviews: The book is a solid, comprehensive ... text providing a full overview of solar-terrestrial science, pitched at the graduate student level. The book provides an excellent summary of the underlying physics controlling Sun-Earth connections, and it certainly merits a place on the bookshelf of an academic working in the field. ... is worthwhile for working solar-terrestrial physicists ... . If you are an ambitious graduate student and have decided you want to make a career in solar-terrestrial physics, then you might consider it ... . (Andy Breen, EOS, Vol. 90 (11), March, 2009)

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