Heliophysics: Evolving Solar Activity and the Climates of Space and Earth

The third of these texts focuses on the sunspot cycle and its effects on space weather and planetary climates.

Carolus J. Schrijver (Edited by), George L. Siscoe (Edited by)

9780521130202, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 12 January 2012

526 pages
24.4 x 17 x 2.6 cm, 0.83 kg

Heliophysics is a fast-developing scientific discipline that integrates studies of the Sun's variability, the surrounding heliosphere, and the environment and climate of planets. Over the past few centuries, our understanding of how the Sun drives space weather and climate on the Earth and other planets has advanced at an ever increasing rate. This 2010 volume, the last in this series of three heliophysics texts, focuses on long-term variability from the Sun's decade-long sunspot cycle and considers the evolution of the planetary system over ten billion years from a climatological perspective. Topics covered range from the dynamo action of stars and planets to processes in the Earth's troposphere, ionosphere, and magnetosphere and their effects on planetary climate and habitability. Supplemented by online teaching materials, it can be used as a textbook for courses or as a foundational reference for researchers in fields from astrophysics and plasma physics to planetary and climate science.

Preface
1. Interconnectedness in heliophysics Carolus J. Schrijver and George L. Siscoe
2. Long-term evolution of magnetic activity of Sun-like stars Carolus J. Schrijver
3. Formation and early evolution of stars and proto-planetary disks Lee W. Hartmann
4. Planetary habitability on astronomical time scales Donald E. Brownlee
5. Solar internal flows and dynamo action Mark S. Miesch
6. Modeling solar and stellar dynamos Paul Charbonneau
7. Planetary fields and dynamos Ulrich R. Christensen
8. The structure and evolution of the 3D solar wind John T. Gosling
9. The heliosphere and cosmic rays J. Randy Jokipii
10. Solar spectral irradiance: measurements and models Judith L. Lean and Thomas N. Woods
11. Astrophysical influences on planetary climate systems Juerg Beer
12. Evaluating the drivers of Earth's climate system Thomas J. Crowley
13. Ionospheres of the terrestrial planets Stanley C. Solomon
14. Long-term evolution of the geospace climate Jan J. Sojka
15. Waves and transport processes in atmospheres and oceans Richard L. Walterscheid
16. Solar variability, climate, and atmospheric photochemistry Guy P. Brasseur, Daniel Marsch and Hauke Schmidt
Appendix I. Authors and editors
List of illustrations
List of tables
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Meteorology & climatology [RBP], Atmospheric physics [PHVJ], Astrophysics [PHVB], Solar system: the Sun & planets [PGS]