TY - BOOK AU - AU - AU - AU - ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Space Weather: The Physics Behind a Slogan T2 - Lecture Notes in Physics, SN - 9783540315346 AV - QB495-500.269 U1 - 520 23 PY - 2005/// CY - Berlin, Heidelberg PB - Springer Berlin Heidelberg KW - Physics KW - Physical geography KW - Astrophysics KW - Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences KW - Geophysics/Geodesy N1 - Introduction to Space Weather -- The Sun and its Restless Magnetic Field -- The Application of Radio Diagnostics to the Study of the Solar Drivers of Space Weather -- Interplanetary Disturbances -- The Magnetosphere -- Space Weather Effects in the Upper Atmosphere: Low and Middle Latitudes -- Space Weather Effects in the Upper Atmosphere: High Latitudes -- Space Weather Effects on Technology -- Radiation Risks From Space -- Index; ZDB-2-PHA; ZDB-2-LNP N2 - The various processes that connect the physics of the Sun with that of the Earth`s environment has become known as "Space Weather" during recent years, a slogan that has emerged in connection with many other expressions adapted from meteorology, such as solar wind, magnetic clouds or polar rain. This volume is intended as a first graduate-level textbook-style account on the physics of these solar-terrestrial relations and their impact on our natural and technological environment UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b100037 ER -