Exploring the secrets of the aurora [electronic resource] / by Syun-Ichi Akasofu.
By: Akasofu, Syun-Ichi.
Material type: BookSeries: Astrophysics and space science library ; v. 278.Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c2002Description: 1 online resource.ISBN: 9781402006852; 9780306479700 (electronic bk.).Call No.: QC971 .A42 2002 Subject(s): AurorasOnline resources: Electronic ResourcesIncludes 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.
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