The Earth's Plasmasphere - J. F. Lemaire, K. I. Gringauz

The Earth's Plasmasphere

Buch | Softcover
376 Seiten
2005
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-67555-0 (ISBN)
77,30 inkl. MwSt
Describes the historical development of ideas concerning the plasmasphere. The volume also brings our picture of the plasmasphere up to date by presenting experimental and observational results, and proposing mathematical and physical theories to explain its formation.
This is the first monograph to describe the historical development of ideas concerning the plasmasphere by the pioneering researchers themselves. The plasmasphere is a cold thermal plasma cloud encircling the Earth, terminating abruptly at a radial distance of 30,000 km over a sharp discontinuity known as the plasmapause. The volume commences with an account of the difficulties met in USSR by Gringauz to publish his early discoveries from Soviet rocket measurements, and the contemporaneous breakthroughs by Carpenter in the USA from ground-based whistler measurements. The authors then update our picture of the plasmasphere by presenting experimental and observational results of the past three decades, and mathematical and physical theories proposed to explain its formation. The volume will be invaluable for researchers in space physics, and will also appeal to those interested in the history of science.

Preface; Foreword; Introduction; 1. Discovery of the plasmasphere and initial studies of its properties; 2. Electromagnetic sounding of the plasmasphere; 3. Plasmasphere measurements from spacecraft; 4. A global description of the plasmasphere; 5. Theoretical aspects related to the plasmasphere; Epilogue; References; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 29.9.2005
Reihe/Serie Cambridge Atmospheric and Space Science Series
Co-Autor D. L. Carpenter, V. Bassolo
Zusatzinfo 1 Tables, unspecified; 11 Halftones, unspecified; 180 Line drawings, unspecified
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 179 x 254 mm
Gewicht 649 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Meteorologie / Klimatologie
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Astronomie / Astrophysik
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Plasmaphysik
ISBN-10 0-521-67555-3 / 0521675553
ISBN-13 978-0-521-67555-0 / 9780521675550
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