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Inverse Problems in Atmospheric Constituent Transport
Av I. G. Enting, Alexander J. Dessler
Häftad, 2005
1367 kr
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The critical role of trace gases in global atmospheric change makes an improved understanding of these gases imperative. Measurements of the distributions of these gases in space and time provide important information, but the interpretation of this information often involves ill-conditioned model …
Whistler-mode Waves in a Hot Plasma
Häftad, 2005
860 kr
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The book provides an extensive theoretical treatment of whistler-mode propagation, instabilities and damping in a collisionless plasma. This book fills a gap between oversimplified analytical studies of these waves, based on the cold plasma approximation, and studies based on numerical methods. …
Ocean Atmosphere Interaction and Climate Modeling
Av Boris A. Kagan, Alexander J. Dessler m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
1563 kr
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This 1995 text is addressed to advanced students in oceanography, meteorology and environmental sciences, as well as to professional researchers in these fields. It aims to acquaint them with advances in experimental and theoretical investigations of ocean-atmosphere interactions, a rapidly …
Antarctic Meteorology and Climatology
Av J. C. King, J. Turner
Häftad, 2007
1628 kr
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This book presents a comprehensive survey of the climatology and meteorology of Antarctica. The first section of the book reviews the methods by which we can observe the Antarctic atmosphere and presents a synthesis of climatological measurements. In the second section, the processes which maintain …
The High-Latitude Ionosphere and its Effects on Radio Propagation
Av R. D. Hunsucker, J. K. Hargreaves
Häftad, 2007
2263 kr
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The physical properties of the ionized layer in the Earth's upper atmosphere enable us to use it to support an increasing range of communications applications. This book presents a modern treatment of the physics and phenomena of the high latitude upper atmosphere and the morphology of radio …
Physics and Chemistry of the Upper Atmosphere
Av M. H. Rees
Häftad, 1989
1302 kr
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This textbook focuses on the physics and chemistry of the Earth's upper atmosphere, which is bounded at the bottom by a pressure level at which most of the incoming ionizing radiation has been absorbed, and bounded at the top by the level at which the escape of gas becomes important. The plan of …
The Solar-Terrestrial Environment
An Introduction to Geospace - the Science of the Terrestrial Upper Atmosphere, Ionosphere, and Magnetosphere
Häftad, 1995
1416 kr
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This book describes physical conditions in the upper atmosphere and magnetosphere of the Earth. The account is introductory, at a level suitable for readers with a basic inderstanding of physics and explains the principles of physical investigation. The principal material covers the neutral and …
Introduction to Circulating Atmospheres
Av I. N. James, Alexander J. Dessler
Häftad, 1995
1514 kr
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This book gives an account of the modern view of the global circulation of the atmosphere. It brings the observed nature of the circulation together with theories and simple models of the mechanisms which drive it. Early chapters concentrate on the classical view of the global circulation, on the …
The Earth's Plasmasphere
Av J. F. Lemaire, K. I. Gringauz m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
2508 kr
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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 …
Theory of Space Plasma Microinstabilities
Av S. Peter Gary, Alexander J. Dessler m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
846 kr
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The ionized material that constitutes plasma permeates almost all of the universe beyond the planets and their atmospheres and satellites. This book describes the linear theory of many different waves and instabilities that may propagate in a collisionless plasma. Electrostatic and electromagnetic …
Gaskinetic Theory
Av Tamas I. Gombosi, Alexander J. Dessler
Häftad, 1994
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915 kr
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Gaskinetic Theory is an introductory text on the molecular theory of gases and on modern transport theory. It is suitable for upper division undergraduates in physics and first year graduate students in aerospace engineering, upper atmospheric science and space research. The first part introduces …
Ocean Atmosphere Interaction and Climate Modeling
Inbunden, 1995
2361 kr
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This 1995 text is addressed to advanced students in oceanography, meteorology and environmental sciences, as well as to professional researchers in these fields. It aims to acquaint them with advances in experimental and theoretical investigations of ocean-atmosphere interactions, a rapidly …
Antarctic Meteorology and Climatology
Av J. C. King, J. Turner m. fl.
Inbunden, 1997
2247 kr
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This book presents a comprehensive survey of the climatology and meteorology of Antarctica. The first section of the book reviews the methods by which we can observe the Antarctic atmosphere and presents a synthesis of climatological measurements. In the second section, the processes which maintain …
The Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Häftad, 1994
1335 kr
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The book gives a comprehensive and lucid account of the science of the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL). There is an emphasis on the application of the ABL to numerical modelling of the climate. The book comprises nine chapters, several appendices (data tables, information sources, physical …
Spacecraft-Environment Interactions
Av Daniel Hastings, Henry Garrett
Häftad, 2004
1807 kr
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Spacecraft interact with the space environment in ways that may affect the operation of the spacecraft as well as any scientific experiments that are carried out from the spacecraft platform. In turn the study of these interactions provides information on the space environment. The adverse …
Physics of the Space Environment
Av Tamas I. Gombosi, Alexander J. Dessler m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
1807 kr
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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the physical phenomena that result from the interaction of the sun and the planets - often termed space weather. Physics of the Space Environment explores the basic processes in the Sun, in the interplanetary medium, in the near-Earth space, and …
Physics of Solar System Plasmas
Av Thomas E. Cravens, Alexander J. Dessler m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
1710 kr
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Physics of Solar System Plasmas provides a comprehensive introduction to the plasma physics and magnetohydrodynamics that are needed to study the solar wind and magnetosphere. The text includes a broad introduction to plasma physics, including important discussions of kinetic theory, single …
Introduction to Geomagnetically Trapped Radiation
Av Martin Walt, Alexander J. Dessler m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
1465 kr
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This book is an introductory textbook on the physical processes occurring in the Earth's radiation belts. The presentation is at the advanced undergraduate or first year graduate level, and it is appropriate for students who intend to work in some aspect of magnetospheric physics. The treatment is …
Atmospheric Dynamics
Av John Green, Alexander J. Dessler m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
1237 kr
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In his book, John Green presents a unique personal insight into the fundamentals of fluid mechanics and atmospheric dynamics. Generations of students have benefited from his lectures, and this book, many years in the making, is the result of his wide teaching and research experience. The theory of …
An Introduction to Space Plasma Complexity
Inbunden, 2015
1970 kr
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An Introduction to Space Plasma Complexity considers select examples of complexity phenomena related to observed plasma processes in the space environment, such as those pertaining to the solar corona, the interplanetary medium, and Earth's magnetosphere and ionosphere. This book provides a guided …
The Earth's Plasmasphere
Av J. F. Lemaire, K. I. Gringauz
Häftad, 2005
1083 kr
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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 …
Inverse Problems in Atmospheric Constituent Transport
Av I. G. Enting
Inbunden, 2002
2329 kr
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The critical role of trace gases in global atmospheric change makes an improved understanding of these gases imperative. Measurements of the distributions of these gases in space and time provide important information, but the interpretation of this information often involves ill-conditioned model …
Basics of the Solar Wind
Av Nicole Meyer-Vernet, Alexander J. Dessler m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
2769 kr
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The Sun continually ejects matter into space, blowing a huge bubble of supersonic plasma. This solar wind bathes the whole solar system and shapes all planetary environments. The growth of space technology has considerably increased our knowledge of this medium. This 2007 book presents an …
Whistler and Alfvén Mode Cyclotron Masers in Space
Av V. Y. Trakhtengerts, M. J. Rycroft
Inbunden, 2008
2410 kr
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The subject of wave-particle interactions occurring in space plasmas has developed strongly, both observationally and theoretically, since the discovery of the Van Allen radiation belts of energetic charged particles trapped in the Earth's magnetosphere over forty years ago. These wave-particle …
Ionospheres
Physics, Plasma Physics, and Chemistry
Inbunden, 2009
2769 kr
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This combination of text and reference book describes the physical, plasma and chemical processes controlling the behaviour of ionospheres, upper atmospheres and exospheres. It summarises the structure, chemistry, dynamics and energetics of the terrestrial ionosphere and other solar system bodies, …
The Arctic Climate System
Av Mark C. Serreze, Roger G. Barry
Inbunden, 2014
2247 kr
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This second edition brings this definitive book up to date with the many advances in our understanding of Arctic climate since the first edition was published in 2005. The book has also been extensively reorganized to weave issues of Arctic change throughout the text, rather than confining them to …
Physics of Partially Ionized Plasmas
Inbunden, 2016
1064 kr
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Plasma is one of the four fundamental states of matter; the other three being solid, liquid and gas. Several components, such as molecular clouds, diffuse interstellar gas, the solar atmosphere, the Earth's ionosphere and laboratory plasmas, including fusion plasmas, constitute the partially …
Basics of the Solar Wind
Häftad, 2012
911 kr
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The Sun continually ejects matter into space, blowing a huge bubble of supersonic plasma. This solar wind bathes the whole solar system and shapes all planetary environments. The growth of space technology has considerably increased our knowledge of this medium. This 2007 book presents an …
Whistler and Alfvén Mode Cyclotron Masers in Space
Av V. Y. Trakhtengerts, M. J. Rycroft
Häftad, 2012
960 kr
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The subject of wave-particle interactions occurring in space plasmas has developed strongly, both observationally and theoretically, since the discovery of the Van Allen radiation belts of energetic charged particles trapped in the Earth's magnetosphere over forty years ago. These wave-particle …
Ionospheres
Physics, Plasma Physics, and Chemistry
Häftad, 2018
944 kr
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This combination of text and reference book describes the physical, plasma and chemical processes controlling the behaviour of ionospheres, upper atmospheres and exospheres. It summarises the structure, chemistry, dynamics and energetics of the terrestrial ionosphere and other solar system bodies, …
