Space weather : the physics behind a slogan /

Space weather : the physics behind a slogan / K. Scherer ... [et al.] (eds.). - Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2005. - x, 297 p. : ill. (some col.) ;

Papers presented at a spring school organized by the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Extraterrestrische Forschung (AEF), held Mar. 30-Apr. 4, 2003.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction to space weather / Daniel N. Baker -- The sun and its restless magnetic field / Manfred Schüssler -- The application of radio diagnostics to the study of the solar drivers of space weather / Alexander Warmuth, Gottfried Mann -- Interplanetary disturbances / Robert F. Wimmer-Schweingruber -- The magnetosphere / Antonius Otto -- Space weather effects in the upper atmosphere : low and middle latitudes / Gerd W. Prölss -- Space weather effects in the upper atmosphere : high latitudes / Kristian Schlegel -- Space weather effects on technology / Eino Valtonen -- Radiation risks from space / Juergen Kiefer.

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Space environment--Congresses.
Solar-terrestrial physics--Congresses.

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