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.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Advances in Understanding Elements of the Sun—Earth Links
• Some Basic Aspects of the Solar Wind
• The Solar Spectrum in the UV, EUV, and X Ranges: Observations, Modelling, and E.ects on the Earth Upper Atmosphere in the Frame of Space Weather
• Earth Radiation Belts
• Radio Emissions from the Sun and the Interplanetary Medium
• The Sun, The Earth, and the Space Weather.