Author : Michael C. Kelley
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 9780080916576
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (165 download)
Book Synopsis The Earth's Ionosphere by : Michael C. Kelley
Download or read book The Earth's Ionosphere written by Michael C. Kelley and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2009-06-12 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 radio waves, waves which must traverse the commonly 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 reference and for coursework