Gombosi, Tamas I.

Physics of the space environment/ Tamas I. Gombosi. - 1st.ed. - UK: Cambridge university press, 1998. - xviii, 339 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Part I. Theoretical Description of Gases and Plasmas
Ch. 1. Particle Orbit Theory
Ch. 2. Kinetic Theory
Ch. 3. Basic Plasma Phenomena
Ch. 4. Fluid and MHD Theory
Ch. 5. Waves and Oscillations
Ch. 6. Shocks and Discontinuities
Ch. 7. Transport of Superthermal Particles

Part II. The Upper Atmosphere
Ch. 8. The Terrestrial Upper Atmosphere
Ch. 9. Airglow and Aurora
Ch. 10. The Ionosphere

Part III. Sun-Earth Connection
Ch. 11. The Sun
Ch. 12. The Solar Wind
Ch. 13. Cosmic Rays and Energetic Particles
Ch. 14. The Terrestrial Magnetosphere
A. Physical Constants
B. Vector and Tensor Identities and Operators
C. Some Important Integrals
D. Some Useful Special Fuction

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Atmospheric Physics
Space Environment
Atmoshpere, Upper
Solar Wind
Magnetosphere

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