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.
Author(s): J.P. Rozelot (auth.), Jean-Pierre Rozelot (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Physics 699
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 166
Tags: Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences; Astronomy; Geophysics/Geodesy
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Advances in Understanding Elements of the Sun—Earth Links....Pages 5-24
Some Basic Aspects of the Solar Wind....Pages 25-52
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....Pages 53-91
Earth Radiation Belts....Pages 93-118
Radio Emissions from the Sun and the Interplanetary Medium....Pages 119-142
The Sun, The Earth, and the Space Weather....Pages 143-164
