Solar and Heliospheric Origins of Space Weather Phenomena

This book comprises an excursion through space weather, a scientific topic in rapid growth and with growing impact and complications for technological societies.
The emphasis of the present volume is on the origins of space weather: the Sun and the solar mind. Very much as the Sun`s electromagnetic radiation drives the Earth climate, our space weather is driven by the solar wind.
This book addresses students and scientists working, or interested in, the field and provides a thorough introduction to the topic for those who wish to become acquainted with the basic solar physics at the origin of space weather.

List of contents

Advances in Understanding Elements of the Sun-Earth Links.- Some Basic Aspects of the Solar Wind.- The Solar Spectrum in the UV, EUV, and X Ranges: Observations, Modelling, and E.ects on the Earth Upper Atmosphere in the Frame of Space Weather.- Earth Radiation Belts.- Radio Emissions from the Sun and the Interplanetary Medium.- The Sun, The Earth, and the Space Weather.

Summary

This book comprises an excursion through space weather, a scientific topic in rapid growth and with growing impact and implications for technological societies. The text is aimed at students and scientists working, or interested in, the field and provides a thorough introduction to the topic for those who wish to become acquainted with the basic solar physics at the origin of space weather.

Product details

• Assisted by: Jean-Pierr Rozelot (Editor), Jean-Pierre Rozelot (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.10.2010
• EAN: 9783642070310
• ISBN: 978-3-642-07031-0
• No. of pages: 166
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 10 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 283 g
• Illustrations: X, 166 p. 117 illus., 7 illus. in color.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics; Lecture Notes in Physics
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Astronomy; Geophysik, C, Sonnensystem: Sonne und Planeten, Geophysics, sun, Astronomy, space & time, Physics and Astronomy, Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, Astronomy—Observations, Observations, Astronomical, Geophysics/Geodesy, Space Physics, Space sciences, sun-earth links