Solar and Heliospheric Origins of Space Weather Phenomena

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Rozelot, Jean-Pierre (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 699
• Subjects: Physics.; Geophysics.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Space sciences.; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Geophysics/Geodesy.
• Physical Description: X, 166 p. 117 illus., 7 illus. in color. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783540337591
• ISSN: 0075-8450 ;

This book comprises an excursion through space weather, a scientific topic in rapid growth and with growing impact and complications for technological societies. The emphasis of the present volume is on the origins of space weather: the Sun and the solar mind. Very much as the Sun`s electromagnetic radiation drives the Earth climate, our space weather is driven by the solar wind. This book addresses students and scientists working, or interested in, the field and provides a thorough introduction to the topic for those who wish to become acquainted with the basic solar physics at the origin of space weather.