Exploring the Secrets of the Aurora

• Main Author: Akasofu, Syun-Ichi (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2002.
• Series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library ; 278
• Subjects: Physics.; Geophysics.; Atmospheric sciences.; Astrophysics.; Nuclear physics.; Heavy ions.; Hadrons.; Astrophysics and Astroparticles.; Geophysics/Geodesy.; Atmospheric Sciences.; Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons.

Prominent progress in science is inevitably associated with controversies. Thus, young researchers, in particular, have to learn how to persevere during the period of controversy and struggle for acceptance. Unfortunately, the skills needed are not taught in textbooks or monographs, which mostly des...

Table of Contents:

• Search for the Unknown Quantity in the Solar Wind
• Confronting Paradigms: Aurora Research During the Early Space Age
• Realizing the Dream of Our Pioneers: Polar Magnetic Substorms and the Associated Current System
• Is the Earth’s Dipole Really Offcentered and Inclined?: Planetary Magnetic Fields
• Myth of the Emerging Flux Tubes: Sunspots and Solar Flares
• Synthesis of the Four Major Disciplines: Predicting Geomagnetic Storms As A Space Weather Project
• Beyond the Inner Heliosphere: The Magnetic Field Structure of the Outer Heliosphere: A Three-Dimensional Model.