Exploring the secrets of the aurora [electronic resource] /
by Syun-Ichi Akasofu.
- New York, N.Y. : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c2002.
- 1 online resource.
- Astrophysics and space science library ; v. 278 .
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents: Search for the unknown quantity in the solar wind -- Confronting paradigms: aurora research during the early space age -- Realizing the dream of our pioneers: polar magnetic substorms and the associated current system -- Is the earth's dipole really off-centered and inclined? : planetary magnectic fields -- Myth of the emerging flux tubes: sunspots and solar flares -- Synthesis of the four major disciplines: predicting geomagnetic storms as a space weather project -- Beyond the inner heliosphere: the magnetic field structure of the outer heliosphere: a three-dimensional model.