Aurora : observing and recording nature's spectacular light show / Neil Bone
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- 4198542
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- Author:
- Bone, Neil, 1959-
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- London : Springer, c 2007
- x, 182 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780387360522
- 0387360522
- 9780387684697
- 0387684697
- Series:
- Patrick Moore's practical astronomy series.
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: t Atm ospheric Phenom ena 1
- Aurorae in History 2
- rorae in Mythology .
- ther Atmospheric Phenomena 7
- IH aloes h l 7
- Sun-Pillars and Related Phenomena
- bo s 11
- ,eteo rs 12
- Space W eather 16
- Sauses of the Aurora 19
- he Variable Sun 20
- e Sun as a a Star 24
- Sunspots and the Solar Magnetic Field 27
- he Active Chromosphere and Corona 29
- Coronal Holes
- Solar Flares 32
- Li in g the Sun and the arth-The Solar Wind 34
- Nw Insights on Coronal Mass Ijections and Solar Flares 36
- nteractions with the Solar Wind 3
- C om ets i 37
- Eart s Magnetosphere 40
- Struture of the Magnetosphere 40
- The Van Alhen Belts 43
- "Plasma Movements and Currents in the Magnetosphere;
- the Auroral Ovals 44
- uroral Activity Types and Causes 49
- Au al Substorms 49
- Geom agneti Storm s 50
- Other Effects Associated with CMEs i
- Coronal Hole Aurro ae 52
- Sector Boundary Crossings and Chromospheric Filament
- Disappeara nces 53
- Auroral Em issions 53
- th:er Solar Effects on the Atmosphere 57
- he Ionosphere 57
- Th- e leliosphere 58
- t on Terrestrial Clate 60
- Sroral Forecasting 0 63
- oae and the Snspot Cycle 64
- e g an Eye on the Possibiities for Auroral Activity-The
- DhY Appr oach 66
- Solar Observing 66
- Recent Past Activity .70
- Eary War ings of Ongoing Auroral Activity 72
- M agnetic Effects 72
- SMagn tomn.eters 72
- Behavior of the Magnetic Field 74
- dices of eomagnetic Activity 76
- a76
- .he aa Index 76
- he Kp index 76
- he p Index 77
- I teraet Resources 79
- bserving the Aurora 81
- Ar rai Ac titv at High Latitudes 81
- The Auoral Zones 82
- Location Location, Location 83
- P lar C usp Aurorae 83
- P a Cap Absorptions (PCA) 84
- eomagnetic storms 88
- rora Activity at I ower Latitudes 88
- eomagnetic Storms 89
- raphy 102
- rorae i n Classical Tim es 105
- Arora Records from the Dark and Middle Ages 1 06
- Sat uor of 13-4 March 1989 09
- her Events in Cycle 22 111
- SMaor Aurra of 8-9November 1991 113
- Sh Sirane Casreof Cycle 23 v 114
- The Aurora of6-7 April 2000 115
- he Baste Dav Event, 5-6 July 2000 116
- Marh-April 2001-A Rash of Sunspots 117
- !'he HIallowe'en Storms of October 2003 9
- A Sting in the 'ail 26
- 126
- The Next Two Cycles 126
- Aurora Elsewhere 29
- Ju p iter 29
- Saturn 32
- Uranus and Neptune 133
- M ercu ry
- Venus 35
- .Scientific Investigations 37
- e Eighteenth C entury 37
- e Nineteenth Century .38
- The Twentieth Century 139
- Development of Auroral Theory to the 1950s 1 i40
- Hgh-Latitude Observations 42
- he International Geophysical Year and Beyond 42
- Studying the Solar Wind and Earth's Magnetosphere 1 44
- Staring at the Sun 47
- .Noctlucent Clouds and Other Phenomena [51
- Sctilucent Clouds 15
- Noctilucent Clouds and Solar/Auroral Activity 155
- Appe arance and Behavior 157
- Visual Observa ion 59
- Ph tographic Observation 62
- N acreous C( louds 164
- A irglow 164
- Rocket Launches and Releases from Satellites 1[65
- The Zodiacal Light 167
- The Auroral Sound Controversy 168
- endix: Observational Organrizations .1 69.
- Notes:
- Includes Bibliography (p. 177) and index.
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