Space Weather- Physics and Effects

Abstract

"Published in association with Praxis Publishing, Chichester, UK." This book is a state-of-the-art review on the physics of space weather and on space weather impacts on human technology, including manned spaceflight. With contributions from a team of international experts, this comprehensive work covers all aspects of space weather physical processes, and all known aspects of space hazards from humans, both in space and on Earth. Space Weather - Physics and Effects provides the first comprehensive, scientific background of space storms caused by the sun and its impact on geospace focuses on weather issues that have become vital for the development of nationwide technological infrastructures explains magnetic storms on Earth, including the effects of EUV radiation on the atmosphere is an invaluable aid in establishing real-time weather forecasts details the threat that solar effects might have on modern telecommunication systems, including national power grid systems, aircraft and manned spaceflight. Space weather forcasting historically viewed through the lens of metorology / George Siscoe -- The sun as the prime source of space weather / Volker Bothmer and Andrei Zhukov -- The coupling of the solar wind to the Earth's magnetosphere / Christopher T. Russell -- Major radiation environments in the heliosphere and their implications for interplanetary travel / Norma B. Crosby -- Radiation belts and ring current / Daniel N. Baker and Ioannis A. Daglis -- Ionospheric response / Kristian Schlegel -- Solar effects in the middle and lower stratosphere and probable associations with the troposphere / Karin Labitzke and Harry van Loon -- Space weather effects on communications / Louis J. Lanzerotti -- Space weather effects on power grids / Risto Pirjola -- Space weather impacts on space radiation protection / Rainer Facius and Günther Reitz -- Effects on spacecraft hardware and operations / Alain Hilgers, Alexi Glover and Eamonn Daly -- Effects on satellite navigation / Bertram Arbesser-Rastburg and Norbert Jakowski -- Forecasting space weather / Dimitris Vassiliadis.