Handbook of the Solar-Terrestrial Environment

• An Overview of the Solar–Terrestrial Environment.- An Overview of the Solar–Terrestrial Environment.- The Sun.- The Solar Interior – Radial Structure, Rotation, Solar Activity Cycle.- Solar Atmosphere.- Solar Wind.- Coronal Mass Ejection.- Solar Radio Emissions.- The Earth.- Magnetosphere.- Ionosphere.- Thermosphere.- Space Plasmas.- Space Plasmas.- Magnetic Reconnection.- Nonlinear Processes in Space Plasmas.- Processes in the Solar-Terrestrial Environment.- The Aurora.- Geomagnetic Storms.- Substorms.- Ultra Low Frequency Waves in the Magnetosphere.- Space Weather.- Effects of the Solar Cycle on the Earth’s Atmosphere.- Planets and Comets in the Solar System.- Planetary Magnetospheres.- The Solar-Comet Interactions.

From the reviews: "The book is a solid, comprehensive ... text providing a full overview of solar-terrestrial science, pitched at the graduate student level. The book provides an excellent summary of the underlying physics controlling Sun-Earth connections, and it certainly merits a place on the bookshelf of an academic working in the field. ... is worthwhile for working solar-terrestrial physicists ... . If you are an ambitious graduate student and have decided you want to make a career in solar-terrestrial physics, then you might consider it ... ." (Andy Breen, EOS, Vol. 90 (11), March, 2009)