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Record Nr.

UNISA996466791003316

Titolo

Space Weather [[electronic resource] ] : The Physics Behind a Slogan / / edited by Klaus Scherer, Horst Fichtner, Bernd Heber, Urs Mall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2005

ISBN

3-540-31534-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2005.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 302 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Physics, , 0075-8450 ; ; 656

Disciplina

629.4/16

Soggetti

Space sciences

Geophysics

Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)

Geophysics/Geodesy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Introduction to Space Weather -- The Sun and its Restless Magnetic Field -- The Application of Radio Diagnostics to the Study of the Solar Drivers of Space Weather -- Interplanetary Disturbances -- The Magnetosphere -- Space Weather Effects in the Upper Atmosphere: Low and Middle Latitudes -- Space Weather Effects in the Upper Atmosphere: High Latitudes -- Space Weather Effects on Technology -- Radiation Risks From Space -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

The various processes that connect the physics of the Sun with that of the Earth`s environment has become known as "Space Weather" during recent years, a slogan that has emerged in connection with many other expressions adapted from meteorology, such as solar wind, magnetic clouds or polar rain. This volume is intended as a first graduate-level textbook-style account on the physics of these solar-terrestrial relations and their impact on our natural and technological environment.