Extreme Events in Geospace
Origins, Predictability, and Consequences
Description
Key Features
- Helps to define extremes in space weather and describes existing methods of analysis
- Discusses current scientific understanding of these events and outlines future challenges
- Considers the ways in which space weather may affect daily life
- Demonstrates deep connections between astrophysics, heliophysics, and space weather applications, including a discussion of extreme space weather events from the past
- Examines national and space policy issues concerning space weather in Australia, Canada, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States
Readership
Geophysicists and space weather scientists; Industries and agencies dealing with telecommunication, satellite communication, human spaceflight, prevention of electrical outages, and operational aspects of extreme events
Table of Contents
Part 1: Overview of Impacts and Effects
1. Linking Space Weather Science to Impacts--The View from EarthPart 2: Solar Origins and Statistics of Extremes
2. Extreme Solar Eruptions and their Space Weather Consequences
3. Solar Flare Forecasting: Present Methods and Challenges
4. Geoeffectiveness of Solar and Interplanetary Structures and Generation of Strong Geomagnetic Storms
5. Statistics of Extreme Space Weather Events
6. Data-Driven Modeling of Extreme Space Weather Events and their PredictabilityPart 3: Geomagnetic Storms and Geomagnetically Induced Currents
7. Super Geomagnetic Storms: Past, Present, and Future
8. An Overview of Science Challenges Pertaining to our Understanding of Extreme Geomagnetically Induced Currents
9. Extreme-Event Geoelectric Hazard Maps
10. Global 3D Modeling of the Earth's Magnetosphere for Extreme Geomagnetic Storms
11. Empirical Modeling of Extreme Events: Storm-time Geomagnetic Field, Electric Current, and Pressure DistributionsPart 4: Plasma and Radiation Environment
12. Observations of Extreme Events from GOES Spacecraft
13. Near-Earth Radiation Environment for Extreme Solar and Geomagnetic Conditions
14. Magnetospheric "Killer" Relativistic Electron Dropouts (REDs) and Repopulation: A Cyclical Process
15. Extreme Space Weather Spacecraft Surface Charging and Arcing Effects
16. Deep Dielectric Charging and Spacecraft Anomalies
17. Solar Particle Events and Human Deep Space Exploration: Measurements and Considerations
18. Extreme Events in Atmospheric Radiation at Aviation and Suborbital Altitudes
19. High Energy Transient Luminous Atmospheric Phenomena: The Potential Danger for Suborbital Flights?Part 5: Ionospheric/Thermospheric Effects and Impacts
20. Ionosphere and Thermosphere Responses to Extreme Geomagnetic Storms
21. How the Thermosphere and Ionosphere Might React to an Extreme Space Weather Event
22. The Effect of Solar Radio Bursts on GNSS Signals
23. Extreme Ionospheric Storms and Their Effects on GPS Systems
24. Recent Geoeffective Space Weather Events and Technological System Impacts
25. Extreme Space Weather in Time: Effects on Earth and MarsPart 6: Dealing with the Space Weather
26. Dealing with Extreme Space Weather: The Canadian Experience
27. Space Weather: What are Policy Makers Seeking?
28. Extreme Space Weather and Emergency Management
29. The Social and Economic Impacts of Severe Space Weather
30. Extreme Space Weather Events in the Australian Contex
31. Extreme Space Weather Research in Japan
Product details
- No. of pages: 798
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2017
- Published: December 1, 2017
- Imprint: Elsevier
- eBook ISBN: 9780128127018
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128127001