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Geomagnetic Micropulsations

Geomagnetic Micropulsations

Jacobs, J. A.

Paperback

Series: Physics and Chemistry in Space, Book 1

ChemistryEnvironmental StudiesPhysics

ISBN10: 3642868304
ISBN13: 9783642868306
Publisher: Springer
Published: Jun 12 2012
Pages: 179
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
The subject of geomagnetic micropulsations has developed extremely rapidly and it is difficult to know when is an appropriate time to pause and assess the sum total of our knowledge-both observational and theoretical. There has in recent years been a tremendous increase in both the quantity and quality of data and also many theoretical ad- vances in our understanding of the phenomenon. Undoubtedly there will be further progress in both areas but it seems worthwhile now to review both our knowledge and our ignorance. This book was essen- tially completed by the end of April 1969 and tries to give a summary of the subject up to that time. The Earth is enclosed in the magnetosphere, a hollow carved out of the solar wind by the Earth's magnetic field. Above the ionosphere there is a very tenuous thermal plasma of partially ionized hydrogen in diffusive equilibrium with magnetic and gravitational forces, and ener- getic protons and electrons that constitute the trapped Van Allen ra- diation belts. Throughout this anisotropic and inhomogeneous plasma, natural and man-made electromagnetic energy propagates in a wide variety of modes and frequency bands. This book is concerned with that class of natural signals called geomagnetic micropulsations-short period (usually of the order of seconds or minutes) fluctuations of the Earth's magnetic field.

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