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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Geomagnetism
    part number: Volume 4
  name:
    name part: Jacobs, J. A. (John Arthur)
    name part: 1916-2003
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: ScienceDirect (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 1991
    copyright date: 1991
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xix, 806 pages)
  abstract: Key Features * Covers upper atmosphere physics, the magnetosphere, and solar wind * Expert team of contributors from all over the world * The fourth volume of the only comprehensive treatise covering all aspects of geomagnetism.
  table of contents: Front Cover; Geomagnetism; Copyright Page; Contributors; General Preface; Preface to Volume 4; Contents of Volumes 1-3; Table of Contents; Chapter 1. The Solar Wind; 1 Introduction; 2 Large-scale properties; 3 Theory of coronal expansion; 4 Microstructure of the solar wind plasma; 5 Hydromagnetic fluctuations and discontinuities; 6 Shock waves in the solar wind; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 2. The Magnetosphere; 1 Introduction; 2 Magnetic-field configuration; 3 Magnetospheric electric fields; 4 Cold plasma; 5 Plasma sheet and ring current; 6 The aurora.
  table of contents: 7 Geomagnetically trapped radiation8 Non-linear phenomena; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 3. The Earth's Magnetopause; 1 Introduction; 2 Magnetopause location and shape; 3 Magnetopause structure and transfer processes; 4 Summary; Acknowledgement; References; Chapter 4. The Geomagnetic Tail; 1 Observations; 2 Theories; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 5. The Neutral Upper Atmosphere; 1 Structure of the upper atmosphere; 2 Balance equations for mass, momentum and energy; 3 Absorption of solar and particle radiation; 4 Thermal balance and atmospheric temperature; 5 Composition.
  table of contents: 6 Dynamics7 Gravity waves; 8 Atmospheric tides; References; Chapter 6. Geomagnetic Pulsations and Plasma Waves in the Earth's Magnetosphere; 1 Introduction; 2 A brief history; 3 Classification schemes; 4 Instruments and observational techniques; 5 Waves in a magnetoplasma; 6 Plasma waves and instabilities in the magnetosphere; 7 Continuous plasma waves and pulsations in the low-frequency band (1-10 mHz); 8 Continuous plasma waves and pulsations in the mid-frequency band (0.01-0.1 Hz); 9 Continuous plasma waves and pulsations in the high-frequency band (0.1-10 Hz).
  table of contents: 10 Impulsive plasma waves and pulsations11 Epilogue; Acknowledgements; References; Appendix; Chapter 7. Physical Processes Producing Magnetospheric Substorms and Magnetic Storms; 1 Introduction; 2 What is a substorm?; 3 The structure of the magnetosphere; 4 Models of magnetospheric substorms; 5 Important questions in substorm physics; References; Chapter 8. Auroras; 1. Introduction; 2. History; 3. The spectrum of auroras; 4. Auroral morphology; 5. Auroral theory; References; Index.
  note: edited by J.A. Jacobs.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and inde.
  subject:
    topic: Geomagnetism
  subject:
    topic: Géomagnétisme
  subject:
    topic: geomagnetism
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: Physics
    topic: Magnetism
  subject:
    topic: Geomagnetism
  classification: QC815.2
  classification: 538.7
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    title info:
      title: Geomagnetism
    identifier: (OCoLC)22626986
  identifier: 9781483288703
  identifier: 1483288706
  identifier: 0123786746
  identifier: 9780123786746
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  record info:
    record content source: OPELS
    record creation date: 140627
    record change date: 20260326205534.1
    record identifier: in00005755442
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng