Effects of Space Weather on Technology Infrastructure

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Daglis, Ioannis A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Series: NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, 176
• Subjects: Physics.; Space sciences.; Particle acceleration.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Power electronics.; Radiation protection.; Radiation > Safety measures.; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.; Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity.; Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics.; Power Electronics, Electrical Machines and Networks.; Effects of Radiation/Radiation Protection.

The 17 chapters of this book grew out of the tutorial lectures given by leading world-class experts at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop “Effects of Space Weather on Technology Infrastructure” - ESPRIT, which was held in Rhodes on March 25-29, 2004. All manuscripts were refereed and subsequently m...

Table of Contents:

• Specifying and Forecasting Space Weather Threats to Human Technology
• Geospace storm dynamics
• Structure and Dynamics of the Outer Radiation Belt
• The Ion Radiation Belts: Experiments and Models
• Outlook on Space Weather Effects on Spacecraft
• Space Weather Effects on SOHO and its Space Weather Warning Capabilities
• Prevention of Spacecraft Anomalies — The Role of Space Climate and Space Weather Models
• The relation of high- and low-orbit satellite anomalies to different geophysical parameters
• Simulation of Space Radiation Effects in Microelectronic Parts
• The Effects of Space Weather on Radio Systems
• Effects of Solar Radio Bursts on Wireless Systems
• Space Weather Effects on Aircraft Operations
• Ground Effects of Space Weather
• Space Weather and the Vulnerability of Electric Power Grids
• Space Weather Effects on Power Transmission Systems: The Cases of Hydro-Québec and Transpower New ZealandLtd
• Neutron Monitor Network in Real Time and Space Weather
• Space Weather Research and the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR).