Heliophysics : evolving solar activity and the climates of space and earth / edited by Carolus J. Schrijver, George L. Siscoe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schrijver, Carolus J., editor.

Siscoe, George L., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Solar activity.

Weather--Effect of solar activity on.

Weather.

Heliosphere (Astrophysics).

Solar-terrestrial physics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 495 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Heliophysics: Evolving Solar Activity & the Climates of Space & Earth

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Heliophysics is a fast-developing scientific discipline that integrates studies of the Sun's variability, the surrounding heliosphere, and the environment and climate of planets. Over the past few centuries, our understanding of how the Sun drives space weather and climate on the Earth and other planets has advanced at an ever increasing rate. This 2010 volume, the last in this series of three heliophysics texts, focuses on long-term variability from the Sun's decade-long sunspot cycle and considers the evolution of the planetary system over ten billion years from a climatological perspective. Topics covered range from the dynamo action of stars and planets to processes in the Earth's troposphere, ionosphere, and magnetosphere and their effects on planetary climate and habitability. Supplemented by online teaching materials, it can be used as a textbook for courses or as a foundational reference for researchers in fields from astrophysics and plasma physics to planetary and climate science.

Contents:

Interconnectedness in heliophysics / Carolus J. Schrijver and George L. Siscoe

Long-term evolution of magnetic activity of Sun-like stars / Carolus J. Schrijver

Formation and early evolution of stars and protoplanetary disks / Lee W. Hartmann

Planetary habitability on astronomical time scales / Donald E. Brownlee

Solar internal flows and dynamo action / Mark S. Miesch

Modeling solar and stellar dynamos / Paul Charbonneau

Planetary fields and dynamos / Ulrich R. Christensen

The structure and evolution of the three-dimensional solar wind / John T. Gosling

The heliosphere and cosmic rays / J.R. Jokipii

Solar spectral irradiance: measurements and models / Judith L. Lean and Thomas N. Woods

Astrophysical influences on planetary climate systems / Jürg Beer

Assessing the sun-climate relationship in paleoclimate records / Thomas J. Crowley

Terrestrial ionospheres / Stanley C. Solomon

Long-term evolution of the geospace climate / Jan J. Sojka

Waves and transport processes in atmospheres and oceans / Richard L. Walterscheid

Solar variability, climate, and atmospheric photochemistry / Guy P. Brasseur, Daniel Marsch, and Hauke Schmidt.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

ISBN:

1-107-08340-0

1-107-20282-5

0-511-76035-3

1-282-77164-7

9786612771644

0-511-90870-9

0-511-90795-8

0-511-90667-6

0-511-90946-2

0-511-90539-4

OCLC:

665581298