Screen LibraryThe earth's ionosphere : plasma physics and electrodynamics /
Although interesting in its own right, due to the ever increasing use of satellites for communication and navigation, weather in the ionosphere is of great concern. Every such system uses trans-ionospheric propagation of radiowaves, waves which must traverse the often turbulent ionosphere. Understan...
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Academic Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Amsterdam ; Boston : |
| Publication Dates: | 2009. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Second edition. |
| Series: |
International geophysics series ;
v. 96 |
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| Online Access: |
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/bookseries/00746142/96 |
| Summary: |
Although interesting in its own right, due to the ever increasing use of satellites for communication and navigation, weather in the ionosphere is of great concern. Every such system uses trans-ionospheric propagation of radiowaves, waves which must traverse the often turbulent ionosphere. Understanding this turbulence and predicting it are one of the major goals of the National Space Weather program. Acquiring such a prediction capability will rest on understanding the very topics of this book, the plasma physics and electrodynamics of the system. *Fully updated to reflect advances in the f |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xiv, 556 pages, [16] pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780120884254 0120884259 9780080916576 0080916570 |
| Index Number: | QC809 |
| CLC: | P354 |
| Contents: | Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Introductory and Background Material -- Chapter 2 Fundamentals of Ionospheric and Magnetospheric Plasma Dynamics -- Chapter 3 Dynamics and Electrodynamics of the Equatorial Zone -- Chapter 4 Equatorial Plasma Instabilities and Mesospheric Turbulence -- Chapter 5 Hydro- and Electro-dynamics of The Mid-Latitude Ionosphere -- Chapter 6 Waves and Instabilities at Mid-Latitudes -- Chapter 7 Dynamics and Electrodynamics of the Mesosphere -- Chapter 8 High-Latitude Electrodynamics -- Chapter 9 Ionospheric Response to Electric Fields -- Chapter 10 Instabilit |