Exploring the secrets of the aurora
"This new edition of Exploring the Secrets of the Aurora is based on the author's own experiences as a scientist. It describes the history of progress made in auroral science and magnetospheric physics by providing examples of ideas, controversies, struggles, acceptance, and success."...
Main Author: | Akasofu, Syun-Ichi. |
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Other Authors: | SpringerLink (Online Service) |
Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
Published: |
New York :
Springer,
©2007.
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Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xxx, 288 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
Edition: | 2nd ed. |
Series: |
Astrophysics and space science library ;
v. 346. |
Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note:
- 1.
- Search for the unknown quantity in the solar wind
- 2.
- Confronting paradigms : aurora research during the early space age
- 3.
- Realizing the dream of our pioneers : polar magnetic substorms and the assorted current system
- 4.
- Synthesis of magnetospheric substorm phenomena
- 5.
- Planetary magnetic fields : is the Earth's dipole really off-centered and inclined?
- 6.
- Recurrent geomagnetic disturbances and the solar wind
- 7.
- Myth of the emerging flux tubes : sunspots and solar flares
- 8.
- Space weather research.