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Solar and Heliospheric Origins of Space Weather Phenomena Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2006 Edition
Author(s): Jean-Pierre Rozelot
- Publisher: Springer
- Publication Date: November 19, 2010
- Edition: Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2006
- Language: English
- Print length: 176 pages
- ISBN-10: 3642070310
- ISBN-13: 9783642070310
Book Description
This book comprises an excursion through space weather, a scientific topic in rapid growth and with growing impact and implications for technological societies. The text is aimed at 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.
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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.
