The Earth's Ionosphere: Plasma Physics and Electrodynamics

✍ Scribed by Michael C. Kelley (Eds.)

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 247
• Series: International Geophysics 96
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Although interesting in its own right, due to the ever increasing use of satellites for communication and navigation, weather in the ionosphere is of great concern. Every such system uses trans-ionospheric propagation of radiowaves, waves which must traverse the often turbulent ionosphere. Understanding this turbulence and predicting it are one of the major goals of the National Space Weather program. Acquiring such a prediction capability will rest on understanding the very topics of this book, the plasma physics and electrodynamics of the system.
Fully updated to reflect advances in the field in the 20 years since the first edition published
Explores the buffeting of the ionosphere from above by the sun and from below by the lower atmosphere
*Unique text appropriate both as a refence and for coursework.

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Edited by
Page iii

Copyright
Page iv

Dedication
Page v

Preface
Pages xiii-xiv
Michael C. Kelley

1 Introductory and Background Material
Pages 1-26

2 Fundamentals of Atmospheric, Ionospheric, and Magnetospheric Plasma Dynamics
Pages 27-70

3 Dynamics and Electrodynamics of the Equatorial Zone
Pages 71-129

4 Equatorial Plasma Instabilities and Mesospheric Turbulence
Pages 131-220

5 Hydro- and Electrodynamics of the Midlatitude Ionosphere
Pages 221-266

6 Waves and Instabilities at Midlatitudes
Pages 267-342

7 Dynamics and Electrodynamics of the Mesosphere
Pages 343-378

8 High-Latitude Electrodynamics
Pages 379-431

9 Ionospheric Response to Electric Fields
Pages 433-468

10 Instabilities and Structure in the High-Latitude Ionosphere
Pages 469-544

Index
Pages 545-556

Color Plates
Pages cp1-cp16