Exploring the secrets of the aurora [electronic resource] / by Syun-Ichi Akasofu.
Material type:
- 9781402006852
- 9780306479700 (electronic bk.)
- QC971 .A42 2002
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.
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