Heliophysics : space storms and radiation : causes and effects /

Heliophysics : space storms and radiation : causes and effects /

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Imprint:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 447 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Language:	English
Subject:	Solar energetic particles. Heliosphere (Astrophysics) Solar wind. Heliosphere (Astrophysics) Solar energetic particles. Solar wind.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11824268

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Other authors / contributors:	Schrijver, Carolus J. Siscoe, George L.
ISBN:	9780511729492 0511729499 0511726198 9780511726194 9780521760515 0521760518 9781139194532 1139194534 9781107403994 1107403995
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	"Heliophysics is a fast-developing scientific discipline that integrates studies of the Sun's variability, the surrounding heliosphere, and the environment and climate of planets. The Sun is a magnetically variable star and, for planets with intrinsic magnetic fields, planets with atmospheres, or planets like Earth with both, there are profound consequences. This volume, the second in a series of three heliophysics texts, integrates the many aspects of space storms and the energetic radiation associated with them - from causes on the Sun to effects in planetary environments. It reviews the physical processes in solar flares and coronal mass ejections, interplanetary shocks, and particle acceleration and transport, and considers many space weather responses in geospace. In addition to its utility as a textbook, it also constitutes a foundational reference for researchers in fields from heliophysics to climate science. Additional online resources, including lecture presentations and other teaching materials, are available at www.cambridge.org/9780521760515"--Provided by publisher "Over the past few centuries, our awareness of the couplings between the Sun's variability and the Earth's environment, and perhaps even its climate, has been advancing at an ever increasing rate. The Sun is a magnetically variable star and for planets with intrinsic magnetic fields, planets with atmospheres, or planets like Earth with both, there are profound consequences and impacts. Today, the successful increase in knowledge of the workings of the Sun's magnetic activity, the recognition of the many physical processes that couple the realm of the Sun to our galaxy, and the insights into the interaction of the solar wind and radiation with the Earth's magnetic field, atmosphere and climate system have tended to differentiate and insularize the solar heliospheric and geo-space sub-disciplines of the physics of the local cosmos"--Provided by publisher
Other form:	Print version: Heliophysics. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010 9780521760515

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Summary:	Heliophysics is a fast-developing scientific discipline that integrates studies of the Sun's variability, the surrounding heliosphere, and the environment and climate of planets. The Sun is a magnetically variable star and, for planets with intrinsic magnetic fields, planets with atmospheres, or planets like Earth with both, there are profound consequences. This volume, the second in a series of three heliophysics texts, integrates the many aspects of space storms and the energetic radiation associated with them - from causes on the Sun to effects in planetary environments. It reviews the physical processes in solar flares and coronal mass ejections, interplanetary shocks, and particle acceleration and transport, and considers many space weather responses in geospace. In addition to its utility as a textbook, it also constitutes a foundational reference for researchers in fields from heliophysics to climate science. Additional online resources, including lecture presentations and other teaching materials, are available at www.cambridge.org/9780521760515.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xi, 447 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780511729492 0511729499 0511726198 9780511726194 9780521760515 0521760518 9781139194532 1139194534 9781107403994 1107403995