Heliophysics: Plasma Physics of the Local Cosmos
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- Carolus J. Schrijver, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center
- George L. Siscoe, Boston University
- Date Published: August 2011
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107403222
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Heliophysics is a developing scientific discipline integrating studies of the Sun's variability, the surrounding heliosphere, and climatic environments. Over the past few centuries, our understanding of how the Sun drives space weather and climate on the Earth and other planets has advanced at an ever-increasing rate. This volume, the first in this series of three heliophysics texts, integrates such diverse topics for the first time as a coherent intellectual discipline. It emphasises the physical processes coupling the Sun and Earth, allowing insights into the interaction of the solar wind and radiation with the Earth's magnetic field, atmosphere and climate system. It provides a core resource for advanced undergraduates and graduates, and also constitutes a foundational reference for researchers in heliophysics, astrophysics, plasma physics, space physics, solar physics, aeronomy, space weather, planetary science and climate science. Additional online resources, including lecture presentations and other teaching materials, are accessible at www.cambridge.org/9780521110617.
Read more- Authored by a team of expert researchers and trialled at NASA's 'Living with a Star' summer school where this material has been taught
- Unites the many subdisciplines related to the Sun–Earth connections under the umbrella of 'heliophysics', helping readers to quickly grasp the big picture
- Highlights parallels and differences of approach, allowing readers to apply their knowledge to other disciplines and quickly understand key questions and assumptions
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- Date Published: August 2011
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107403222
- length: 458 pages
- dimensions: 244 x 170 x 23 mm
- weight: 0.73kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Prologue Carolus J. Schrijver and George L. Siscoe
2. Introduction to heliophysics Thomas J. Bogdan
3. Creation and destruction of magnetic field Matthias Rempel
4. Magnetic field topology Dana W. Longcope
5. Magnetic reconnection Terry G. Forbes
6. Structures of the magnetic field Mark B. Moldwin, George L. Siscoe and Carolus J. Schrijver
7. Turbulence in space plasmas Charles W. Smith
8. The solar atmosphere Viggo H. Hansteen
9. Stellar winds and magnetic fields Viggo H. Hansteen
10. Fundamentals of planetary magnetospheres Vytenis M. Vasyliūnas
11. Solar-wind magnetosphere coupling: an MHD perspective Frank R. Toffoletto and George L. Siscoe
12. On the ionosphere and chromosphere Tim Fuller-Rowell and Carolus J. Schrijver
13. Comparative planetary environments Frances Bagenal
Bibliography
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