From the sun

Name: From the sun
ISBN: 9780875902920

auroras, magnetic storms, solar flares, cosmic rays

de Steven T. Suess

5/5

Prima publicare: 1998
Editori: American Geophysical Union
Limba: English

For the graduate or other working physicist, in particular astrophysicists and solar physicists, this is an ideal overview with which to become acquainted with space physics as applied to the Sun-Earth interface. This is accomplished via 16 short essays that range from the Aurora and Magnetosphere of Earth, to magnetic storms, the solar wind and solar flares, and also solar irradiance (a key factor in the Sun-climate relationship) and the solar dynamo.

Being a collection of essays by writers of varying talent, this book is not what you'd call a page-turner, unless you have a healthy curiosity about sun-earth physics. I found it a very useful introduction to the field, and plan to use it to guide undergraduate research (I'm a physicist with a doctorate, teaching at an institution with an undergraduate physics program.

auroras, magnetic storms, solar flares, cosmic rays

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