Convection and substorms : paradigms of magnetospheric phenomenology / Charles F. Kennel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kennel, Charles F., 1939- author.

Series:

International series on astronomy and astrophysics

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Magnetosphere.

Magnetospheric substorms.

Convection (Meteorology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (432 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.

System Details:

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Summary:

The magnetosphere is the region where cosmic rays and the solar wind interact with the Earth's magnetic field, creating such phenomena as the northern lights and other aurorae. The configuration and dynamics of the magnetosphere are of interest to planetary physicists, geophysicists, plasma astrophysicists, and to scientists planning space missions. The circulation of solar wind plasma in the magnetosphere and substorms have long been used as the principle paradigms for studying this vital region. The author here presents a synthesis of the convection and substorm literatures, and an analysis of convection and substorm interactions; he also suggests that the currently accepted steady reconnection model may be advantageously replaced by a model of multiple tail reconnection events, in which many mutually interdependent reconnections occur.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1995.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record and publisher information.

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Print version :

ISBN:

9780197560488

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